CHAPTER XVIII.

WHAT ARE THOSE STARS WHICH ARE CALLED THE DIOSCURI, THE TWINS, OR

CASTOR AND POLLUX?

Xenophanes says that those which appear as stars in the tops of ships

are little clouds shining by their peculiar motion. Metrodorus, that

the eyes of frighted and astonished people emit those lights which are

called the Twins.

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