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And the author of the Astronomy, which is attributed forsooth to Hesiod, always calls them (the Pleiades) Peleiades: "but mortals call them Peleiades"; and again, "the stormy Peleiades go down"; and again, "then the Peleiades hide away...."

The Pleiades...whose stars are these: — "Lovely Teÿgeta, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope,and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....In the mountains of Cyllene she (Maia) bare Hermes, the herald of the gods."

But Zeus made them (the sisters of Hyas) into the stars which are called Hyades. Hesiod 67 F 2