NOTES. 
Achilles Tati us. The Chaldeans rather than the 
Egyptians might be suspected of not having been ac- 
quainted with the Balance, since Servius, in his com- 
mentary on those well known verses, 
Anne novum sidus tardis te mensibus addas, &c. 
observes, that the Chaldeans divided the zodiac into 
eleven constellations, and the Egyptians into twelve. 
The commentary of Germanicus puts the question in 
the clearest light, by showing, that the Balance of the 
Egyptians was what the Greeks named chelcR; and 
I find that Eratosthenes makes the same remark : 
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%v(Kcii 0 euTi ^vyoQ, Whence could he have taken this 
similitude, if the Balance did not exist in his time ? 
Eudoxus was a Greek ; and, in speaking to Greeks, it 
-was right for him to employ the name of chel(Zf which 
was known to them : but Eratosthenes writing in 
Egypt, and explaining the Greek sphere, could deter- 
mine to what Egyptian sign this name answered. We 
also know, from the Zend Avesta, that the ancient 
Persians were acquainted with the astronomical Ba- 
lance ; and St. Epiphanius says the same of the Pha- 
risiens. What is there in fine more positive, than this 
passage of Achilles Tatius ? the chel(E, which the 
Egyptians call the Balance.” (Uranol., p. l68.) But I 
should never finish, were I to cite every author. With 
respect to the monuments, we are so little acquainted 
with them, and they are so recent, except those of 
Egypt and India, that they give us no information 
respecting the antiquity of this asterism ; but of this 
antiquity every thing bears proof. Even at Rome, 
before the Balance was placed in the heavens, the name 
was known. Cicero employs the word jugum ; it is the 
same with Varro ; Geminus makes use of the word 
