the water-snake. The Centaur (Noah) bearing (θηρίον) a victim, an offering, or as some say (οἴνου ἀσκὸν) a flask of wine. And not far distant, Orion, (Nimrod) ציד הגבור, "the Giant." "the mighty hunter."
After that the celestial sphere had fallen into the hands of the Greeks, they applied to the several figures of men and animals, which they found depicted upon it, the stories of their own mythology, and changed several of their names accordingly; in the same manner as we know that after the time of Aratus[1], they substituted Hercules for Engonasin; putting a club in his hand: describing the animal's skin on his arm as that of the Nemean Lion, and the Dragon on whose head he treads as the guardian of the golden apples of the Hesperides.
- ↑ Hyginus states that Eratosthenes first called this constellation by the name of Hercules.
then with an empty vessel, evidently in allusion to the Raven sent from the Ark. Gen. viii. 7.
