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 nates Scorpio, "" "Megatherion," "The great beast." (Phænom. 82.) And Ovid says:

His length extended through two-twelfths or one-sixth of the whole zodiac circle. After the time of Aratus,, was substituted for , on the celestial sphere. Virgil suggested this constellation as the proper one for the star of Augustus, when after his death he should be inscribed among the gods, as the 23rd of September was his birth-day, at which time the Sun enters this constellation:

The Poet implies that in honour of Augustus the Scorpion had contracted his claws to make room for Libra, about to be honoured by the Julium Sidus. Manilius also: