trail of light), which recalls the city of
that name in Arcadia considered, by Pausanias, the most ancient in the
world, having been founded by Lycaon some time before the Deluge of
Deucalion."

"Euclid said in his Phainomena: 'A star is visible between the Bears, not
changing its place, _but always revolving upon itself_' (_cf._ Plato's
Cosmos). Hipparchus, that the pole was 'in a vacant spot forming a
quadrangle with three other stars,' both writers calling this Polos, the
Polus of Lucan, Ovid and other classical Latins, and Euphratean observers
had called their pole-star Pul or Bil. But, although other astronomical
writers used these words for some individual star, there is no certainty
as to which was intended, for it should be remembered that, during many
millenniums, the polar point has gradually been approaching our pole-star
which, 2000 years ago, was far removed from it, in Hipparchus' time 12 deg.
24' away, according to his own statement, quoted by Marinus of Tyre and
cited by Ptolemy. Heraclitus, the Ionian philosopher of Ephesus of about
500 B.C., asserted that this constellation marked the boundary between the
east and the west, which it may be regarded as doing when on the horizon."
This statement is of extreme importance as it proves an orientation of the
north by the pole-star and not by the solstitial position of the sun.
"Another name for it, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, used for it or its quarter of the sky, was
from the Greek, as seen in Plutarch's {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~} the
'fields' or 'spaces' into which the augurs divided the heavens, the
templa, or regiones coeli of the Latins...."

"In Homer's Il