See also:

• SCORPIO ("THE SCORPION")

SCORPIO ("THE See also:

• SCORPION (Lat. Scorpio)

SCORPION")  , in See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, the 8th sign of the See also:

• ZODIAC (o i'w&arcds rvKcXor, from d,&ov, " a little animal ")

zodiac (q.v.), denoted by the See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol 111 . It is also a See also:

• CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation, mentioned by See also:

• EUDOXUS

Eudoxus (4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.) and See also:

• ARATUS

Aratus (3rd century B.C . ), and catalogued by See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy (24 stars), Tycho See also:

• BRAHE, PER, COUNT (1602-1680)
• BRAHE, TYCHO (1546-1601)

Brahe (1o), See also:

• HEVELIUS [HEVEL or H6WELCKE], JOHANN (1611—1687)

Hevelius (20) . The Greeks fabled that See also:

• ORION
• ORION (or OARION)

Orion having boasted to See also:

• DIANA

Diana and See also:

• LATONA (tat. form of Gr. Arlrw, Leto)

Latona that he would kill every See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal on the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth, these goddesses sent a poisonous reptile—a See also:

• SCORPION (Lat. Scorpio)

scorpion —which stung him so that he died . See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter raised the scorpion to See also:

• HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

heaven, and afterwards, at Diana's See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request, did the same for Orion . The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• STAR

star in this constellation is a Scorpii or Antares, a reddish star of the first magnitude, accompanied by a See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion of the seventh magnitude . ,u Scorpii is a spectroscopic binary; T Nova Scorpii is a " new " star discovered in r86o by G . F . Auwers in the cluster Messier 80 .