Auriga, the Charioteer, is placed in the northern hemisphere near the zodiac, by the Twins; and at the head of the Charioteer is Helice, the Greater Bear, placed; and the Goat is a bright star of the first magnitude placed on the left shoulder of this northern constellation, and called _Capra_, the Goat.

_Hoedi_, the Kids, are two more stars of the same constellation.
[188] A constellation; one of the northern signs in the zodiac, in which the Hyades are placed.
[189] One of the feet of Cepheus, a northern constellation, is under the tail of the Lesser Bear.
[190] Grotius, and after him Dr.Davis, and other learned men, read _Cassiepea_, after the Greek [Greek: Kassiepeia], and reject the common reading, _Cassiopea_.
[191] These northern constellations here mentioned have been always placed together as one family with Cepheus and Perseus, as they are in our modern maps.
[192] This alludes to the fable of Perseus and Andromeda.
[193] Pegasus, who is one of Perseus and Andromeda's family.
[194] That is, with wings.
[195] _Aries_, the Ram, is the first northern sign in the zodiac; _Pisces_, the Fishes, the last southern sign; therefore they must be near one another, as they are in a circle or belt.

In Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis one of the Fishes is near the head of the Ram, and the other near the Urn of Aquarius.
[196] These are called Virgiliae by Cicero; by Aratus, the Pleiades, [Greek: Pleiades]; and they are placed at the neck of the Bull; and one of Perseus's feet touches the Bull in the Atlas Coelestis.
[197] This northern constellation is called Fides by Cicero; but it must be the same with Lyra; because Lyra is placed in our maps as Fides is here.
[198] This is called Ales Avis by Cicero; and I doubt not but the northern constellation Cygnus is here to be understood, for the description and place of the Swan in the Atlas Coelestis are the same which Ales Avis has here.
[199] Pegasus.
[200] The Water-bearer, one of the six southern signs in the zodiac: he is described in our maps pouring water out of an urn, and leaning with one hand on the tail of Capricorn, another southern sign.
[201] When the sun is in Capricorn, the days are at the shortest; and when in Cancer, at the longest.
[202] One of the six southern signs.
[203] Sagittarius, another southern sign.
[204] A northern constellation.
[205] A northern constellation.
[206] A southern constellation.
[207] This is Canis Major, a southern constellation.

Orion and the Dog are named together by Hesiod, who flourished many hundred years before Cicero or Aratus.
[208] A southern constellation, placed as here in the Atlas Coelestis.
[209] A southern constellation, so called from the ship Argo, in which Jason and the rest of the Argonauts sailed on their expedition to Colchos.
[210] The Ram is the first of the northern signs in the zodiac; and the last southern sign is the Fishes; which two signs, meeting in the zodiac, cover the constellation called Argo.
[211] The river Eridanus, a southern constellation.
[212] A southern constellation.
[213] This is called the Scorpion in the original of Aratus.
[214] A southern constellation.
[215] A southern constellation.
[216] The Serpent is not mentioned in Cicero's translation; but it is in the original of Aratus.
[217] A southern constellation.
[218] The Goblet, or Cup, a southern constellation.
[219] A southern constellation.
[220] Antecanis, a southern constellation, is the Little Dog, and called _Antecanis_ in Latin, and [Greek: Prokyon] in Greek, because he rises before the other Dog.
[221] Pansaetius, a Stoic philosopher.
[222] Mercury and Venus.
[223] The proboscis of the elephant is frequently called a hand, because it is as useful to him as one.

"They breathe, drink, and smell, with what may not be improperly called a hand," says Pliny, bk.