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ORION
ORION (or OARION)

ORION (or OARION) , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, son of Hyrieus (Eponymus of Hyria in See also:

BOEOTIA

Boeotia), or of See also:

POSEIDON

Poseidon, a mighty See also:

hunter of See also:

GREAT

great beauty and gigantic strength, perhaps corresponding to the " See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

HUNTSMAN, BENJAMIN (1704-1776)

huntsman " of See also:

Teutonic mythology. He is also sometimes represented as sprung from the See also:

earth. He was the favourite of Eos, the See also:

DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

dawn-goddess, who loved him and carried him off to See also:

DELOS

Delos; but the gods were angry, and would not be appeased till See also:

ARTEMIS

Artemis slew him with her arrows (Odyssey, v. 121). According to other accounts which attribute Orion's See also:

DEATH

death to Artemis, the goddess herself loved him and was deceived by the angry See also:

APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo into See also:

SHOOTING

shooting him by See also:

MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake; or he paid the See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty 'of offering violence to her, or of challenging her to a contest of quoit-throwing (See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus i. 4; See also:

Hyginus, Poet. astron. ii. 34; See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, Odes, iii. 4, 71). In another See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend he was blinded by Oenopion of See also:

CHIOS

Chios for having violated his daughter See also:

MEROPE

Merope; but having made his way to the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where the See also:

sun See also:

rose, he recovered his sight (Hyginus, loc. cit.; See also:

PARTHENIUS

Parthenius, Erotica, 20). He afterwards retired to See also:

CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete, where he lived the See also:

LIFE

life of a hunter with Artemis; but having threatened to exterminate all living creatures on the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, he was killed by the bite of a See also:

SCORPION (Lat. Scorpio)

scorpion sent by the earth-goddess (See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

FASTI

Fasti, V. 537). In the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

WORLD

world his shade is seen by See also:

ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus See also:

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving the wild beasts before him as he had done on earth (Odyssey, xi.

572). After his death he was changed into the See also:

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

constellation which is called by his name. It took the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

WARRIOR

warrior, wearing a See also:

GIRDLE (O. Eng. gyrdel, from gyrdan, to gird; cf. Ger. Gurtel, Dutch gordel, from giirten and gorden; "gird" and its doublet " girth " together with the other Teutonic cognates have been referred by some to the root ghar—to seize, enclose, seen in Gr. )(s

girdle of three stars and a See also:

lion's skin, and carrying a See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club and a See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword. When it rose See also:

early it was a sign of summer; when See also:

LATE

late, of See also:

winter and stormy See also:

WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather; when it rose about midnight it heralded the See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season of vintage. See Kilentzle, Ober See also:

die Sternsagen der Griechen (1897), and his See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in See also:

ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon; he shows that in the See also:

OLDEST

oldest legend Orion the constellation and Orion the See also:

hero are quite distinct, without deciding which was the earlier conception. The See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt sometimes made to attribute an astronomical origin to the myths connected with his name is unsuccessful, except in the See also:

case of Orion's pursuit of Pleione and her daughters (see See also:

PLEIADES) and his death from the bite of the scorpion; see also C. O. See also:

Muller, Kleine Deutsche Schriften, ii. (1848) ; O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, ii. pp. 945, 952; See also:

Preller-See also:

Robert, Griechische Mythologie (1894), pp. 448-454; See also:

Grimm, Teutonic Mythology (Eng. trans., 1883), ii. p.

726, iii. p. 948. In See also:

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

Astronomy.—The constellation Orion is mentioned by See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer (Il. xviii. 486, xxii. 29; Od. v. 294), and also in the Old Testament (See also:

Amos v. 8, See also:

JOB

Job ix. 9). The See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew name for Orion also means " See also:

FOOL (O. Fr. fol, modern fou, foolish, from a Late Latin use of follis, bellows, a ball filled with air, for a stupid person, a jester, a wind-bag)

fool," in reference perhaps to a mythological See also:

story of a " foolhardy, 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-daring See also:

REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel who was chained to the See also:

SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky for his impiety " (See also:

DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– )

Driver). For the See also:

ASSYRIAN

Assyrian names see CONSTELLATION. See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy catalogued 38 stars, Tycho See also:

Brahe 42 and See also:

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

Hevelius 62. Orion is one of the most conspicuous constellations.

It consists of three stars of the 1st magnitude, four of the 2nd, and many of inferior magnitude. a Orionis, or Betelgeuse, is a See also:

bright, yellowish-red See also:

STAR

star of varying magnitude (o.5 to 1.4, generally 0.9). 13 Orionis or Regel is a 1st magnitude star. y Orionis or Bellatrix, and K Orionis are stars of the 2nd magnitude. These four stars, in the See also:

order a, f3, y, K, form an approximate rectangle. Three collinear stars , e and 6 Orionis constitute the " See also:

belt of Orion "; of these e, the central star, is of the 1st magnitude, 8 of the 2nd, while r Orionis is a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

double star, its components having magnitudes 2, and 6; there is also a faint 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 magnitude 1o. a Orionis, very See also:

close to ?' Orionis, is a very fine multiple star, described by See also:

SIR

Sir See also:

William See also:

Herschel as two sets of See also:

TREBLE (a doublet of " triple," three-fold, from Lat. triplus, triple; cf. " double " from duplus)

treble stars; more stars have been revealed by larger telescopes. B Orionis is a multiple star, situated in the famous nebula of Orion, one of the most beautiful in the heavens.

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