his _DOGS_, and _HARE_, and _RIVER_, and _SCORPION_. There's the story of
_Perseus_ in the Constellations of _PERSEUS_, _ANDROMEDA_, _CEPHEUS_,
_CASSIOPEA_ and _CETUS_: That of _Callisto_, and her son _Arcas_, in _URSA
MAJOR_ and _ARCTOPHYLAX_: That of _Icareus_ and his daughter _Erigone_ in
_BOOTES_, _PLAUSTRUM_ and _VIRGO_. _URSA MINOR_ relates to one of the
Nurses of _Jupiter_, _AURIGA_ to _Erechthonius_, _OPHIUCHUS_ to _Phorbas_,
_SAGITTARIUS_ to _Crolus_ the son of the Nurse of the Muses, _CAPRICORN_ to
_Pan_, and _AQUARIUS_ to _Ganimede_. There's _Ariadne_'s _CROWN_,
_Bellerophon_'s _HORSE_, _Neptune_'s _DOLPHIN_, _Ganimede_'s _EAGLE_,
_Jupiter_'s _GOAT_ with her _KIDS_, _Bacchus_'s _ASSES_, and the _FISHES_
of _Venus_ and _Cupid_, and their Parent the _SOUTH FISH_. These with
_DELTOTON_, are the old Constellations mentioned by _Aratus_: and they all
relate to the _Argonauts_ and their Contemporaries, and to Persons one or
two Generations older: and nothing later than that Expedition was
delineated there Originally. _ANTINOUS_ and _COMA BERENICES_ are novel. The
Sphere seems therefore to have been formed by _Chiron_ and _Musæus_, for
the use of the _Argonauts_: for the Ship _Argo_ was the first long ship
built by the _Greeks_. Hitherto they had used round vessels of burden, and
kept within sight of the shore; and now, upon an Embassy to several Princes
upon the coasts of the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean_ Seas, [74] by the
dictates of the Oracle, and consent of the Princes of _Greece_, the Flower
of _Greece_ were to sail with Expedition through the deep, in a long Ship
with Sails, and guide their Ship by the Stars. The People of the Island
_Corcyra_ [75] attributed the invention of the Sphere to _Nausicaa_, the
daughter of _Alcinous_, King of the _Pheaces_ in that Island: and it's most
probable that she had it from the _Argonauts_, who [76] in their return
home sailed to that Island, and made some stay there with her father. So
then in the time of the _Argonautic_ Expedition, the Cardinal points of the
Equinoxes and Solstices were in the middles of the Constellations of
_Aries_, _Cancer_, _Chelæ_, and _Capricorn_.