n _RAM_, the ensign of the Vessel in which
_Phryxus_ fled to _Colchis_; the _BULL_ with brazen hoofs tamed by _Jason_;
and the _TWINS_, _CASTOR_ and _POLLUX_, two of the _Argonauts_, with the
_SWAN_ of _Leda_ their mother. There's the Ship _ARGO_, and _HYDRUS_ the
watchful Dragon; with _Medea_'s _CUP_, and a _RAVEN_ upon its Carcass, the
Symbol of Death. There's _CHIRON_ the master of _Jason_, with his _ALTAR_
and _SACRIFICE_. There's the _Argonaut_ _HERCULES_ with his _DART_ and
_VULTURE_ falling down; and the _DRAGON_, _CRAB_ and _LION_, whom he slew;
and the _HARP_ of the _Argonaut_ _Orpheus_. All these relate to the
_Argonauts_. There's _ORION_ the son of _Neptune_, or as some say, the
grandson of _Minos_, with 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 _Musaeus_, 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_,