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05:30 Mar 30, 2005 |
Italian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Astronomy & Space | |||||||
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4 | arrival of the Pleiades |
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arrival of the Pleiades Explanation: From Richard Hinkley Allen 'Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning' - Dover p. 396 - on the Pleiades 'Hesiod called them the Seven Virgins and the Virgin Stars' (NB - so doesn't refer to Virgo) 'A common figure for these starsm everywhere popular for many centuries is that of a Hen with her Chickens' 'The title, written also Pliades,......has commonly been derived from plein [to sail - Greek], for the heliacal rising of the group in May marked the opening of navigation to the Greeks, as its setting in late autumn did the close' |
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