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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCTURUS , the brightest See also:

star in the See also:northern hemisphere, situated in the See also:constellation See also:Bootes (q.v.) in an almost See also:direct See also:line with the tail Q" and 17) of the constellation Ursa See also:Major (See also:Great See also:Bear); hence its derivation from the Gr. apiTOS, bear, and ovpos, guard. Arcturus has been supposed to be referred to in various passages of the See also:Hebrew See also:Bible; the See also:Vulgate reads Arcturus for stars mentioned in See also:Job ix. 9, See also:xxxvii. 9, xxxviii. 31, as well as See also:Amos v. 8. Other versions, as also See also:modern authorities, have preferred, e.g., See also:Orion, the See also:Pleiades, the See also:Scorpion, the Great B See also:ear(cf. Amos in the "See also:International See also:Critical Comment." See also:series,and G. See also:Schiaparelli, See also:Astronomy in the O.T., Eng. trans., See also:Oxford, 1905, ch. iv.). According to one of the See also:Greek legends about Areas, son of See also:Lycaon, See also:king of See also:Arcadia, he was killed by his See also:father and his flesh was served up in a banquet to See also:Zeus, who was indignant at the See also:crime and restored him to See also:life. Subsequently Areas, when See also:hunting, chanced to pursue his See also:mother See also:Callisto, who had been trans-formed into a bear, as far as the See also:temple of Lycaean Zeus; to prevent the crime of matricide Zeus transported them both to the heavens (See also:Ovid, Metam. fi. 410), where Callisto became the constellation Ursa Major, and Areas the star Arcturus (see LYCAON and CALLISTO).

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