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Which maketh Arcturus.

The word Gnesh in Hebrew,¹ signifies a meeting or congregating of many things together, because in that one, many stars are joined. Arcturus in Greek is as much as to say, The tail of the Bear, because the stars called Arcturus stand in a figure like the tail of a Bear.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Congregare, conglobare, huic respondet Graecum verbum [Greek or Hebrew], quod est, commeare, vel undiquaque convenire. Arcturus stella est in cauda minoris ursae, & Septentrio dicitur, [Greek or Hebrew], ab ursinae caudae similitudine. [Greek or Hebrew] Constantiam, robur, vel inconstantiam significat, quod ejus ortus tempestatibus orbem variè turbat. Bold.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Congregare, conglobare, huic respondet Graecum verbum 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, quod est, commeare, vel undiquaque convenire. Arcturus stella est in cauda minoris ursae, & Septentrio dicitur, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ab ursinae caudae similitudine. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Constantiam, robur, vel inconstantiam significat, quod ejus ortus tempestatibus orbem variè turbat. Bold.

The second Asterism, which we translate Orion, is called in the Hebrew (Chesil) and that signifies either constancy or inconstancy (the sense runs both ways) settledness or variableness. And it is applied to this star or constellation in either sense.