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ARCTURUS , the brightest star
Great
Bear ); hence its derivation from the Gr. apiTOS, bear , and ovpos, guard. Arcturus has been supposed to be referred to in various passages of the Hebrew Bible; the Vulgate reads Arcturus for stars mentioned in Job ix. 9, xxxvii. 9, xxxviii. 31, as well as Amos v. 8. Other versions, as also modern authorities, have preferred, e.g., Orion, the Pleiades, the Scorpion, the Great
Critical Comment." series ,and G. Schiaparelli, Astronomy in the O.T., Eng. trans., Oxford
Arcadia
hunting , chanced to pursue his mother Callisto, who had been trans-formed into a bear, as far as the temple of Lycaean Zeus; to prevent the crime of matricide Zeus transported them both to the heavens (Ovid, Metam. fi. 410), where Callisto became the constellation Ursa Major, and Areas the star
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