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Bootes

noun
1.
A constellation in the northern hemisphere near Ursa Major.





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... Aratus, p. 547 M. 8: Of Bootes, also called the Bear-warden. The story goes that he is Arcas the son of Callisto and Zeus, and he lived in the country about Lycaeum. After Zeus had seduced Callisto, Lycaon, pretending not to know of the matter, entertained Zeus, as Hesiod says, and set before him on the ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod


Words linked to "Bootes" :   Arcturus, constellation


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