CAPRICORNUS (:` THE

See also:

• GOAT (a common Teut. word; O. Eng. gat, Goth. gaits, Mod. Ger. Geiss, cognate with Lat. haedus, a kid)

GOAT ")  , in astronomy, the tenth sign of the zodiac (q.v.), represented by the symbol T2 ° intended to denote the crooked horns of this animal . The word is derived from Lat. caper, a goat, and cornu, a horn . It is also a constellation of the southern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.) ; Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe catalogued 28 stars, Hevelius gave 29 . It was represented by the ancients as a creature having the forepart a goat, and the hindpart a fish, or sometimes simply as a goat . An interesting member of this constellation is a-Capricorn, a pair of stars of 3rd and 4th magnitudes, each of which has a companion of the 9th magnitude .