ried terror even to gods and demi-gods. Pan, the son of Mercury and a wood-nymph, and himself the god of fields and flocks, fled before him and escaped only by being transformed into a goat, Capricornus, which scampered nimbly into the tenth place in the Zodiac. Shelley makes Pan sing:

"From the forests and highlands

We come, we come;

From the river-girt islands
Where loud waves are dumb

Listening to my sweet pipings.

The wind in the reeds and the rushes,
The bees on the bells of thyme,
The birds on the myrtle bushes,

The cicale above in the lime,

And the lizards below in the grass,

Were as silent as ever old Timolus was,
Listening to my sweet pipings."

Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, found her gentle arts of no avail against the unruled violence of Typhon, so she and her son Cupid took refuge among the stars in the shapes of the two Fishes which make up the twelfth sign. Here the sun ends its annual round after passing Aquarius, the Water-bearer, the heavenly representative of Ganymede, the cup-bearer of the gods, who is pouring a draught to refresh the Southern Fish (Piscis Australis). Ganymede was a Trojan boy who was borne away to Olympus by Jupiter in the guise of an Eagle, the starry Aquila, which, as the king of birds, justly held a place by the side of the king of gods and men. Elizabeth Barrett Browning translates one of Ovid's Metamorphoses, in part, as follows:

"But sovran Jove's rapacious bird, the regal
High percher on the lightning, the great eagle,
Drove down with rushing wings; and thinking how,
By Cupid's help, he bore from Ida's brow

A cup-boy for his master, he inclined

To yield, in just return, an influence kind;
The god being honored in his lady's woe."

The animals of the Zodiac are far from being the only members of the Celestial Menagerie. Ursa Major was a nymph, Callisto, beloved by Jupiter. Juno's jealousy turned

her into a bear, and for a time she haunted the forests. One day her son, Arcas, narrowly escaped slaying his mother and in order that so shocking an accident might not be repeated, his father, Jupiter, changed him into a bear also, and placed mother and son in the heavens as the Great and Little Bear. Juno was angry at this defeat of her evil purpose and gained from Oceanus a promise that her rival with her child never should have rest beneath his waters. That is the reason why the two bears follow each other in neverending round about the Pole in the course that Lowell describes in "Prometheus:"

"One after one the stars have risen and set,
Sparkling upon the hoar frost of my chain;
The Bear that prowled all night about the fold
Of the North-star, hath shrunk into his den,
Scared by the blithesome fe tsteps of the Dawn."

Opiuchus, depicted as an old man, holds a writhing serpent (Serpens) in his hands. Draco, winding between the Great and Little Bear, is on guard in the heavens as he used to be on earth, for there he aided the Hesperides in their watch over the golden apples and was killed by Hercules, say the unbelievers in the tradition that he was the

Draco the dragon tossed into the sky by Minerva when she was warring with the Giants.

In similar fashion there are a number of traditions as to the original form of the heavenly hounds. Two of them, the Canes Venatici, are the hunting dogs that are ever in pursuit of the Bear, unobservant of the small nearby stars called "The Female Wolves" and "The Whelps of the Hyenas." The Greater Dog (Canis Major) borrows its fame from one of its components, Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest star in the whole sky, known from earliest times as the faithful escort of Orion and the prophet of the Nile floods. The Lesser Dog (Canis Minor) is variously thought to be one of Diana's hunting dogs, one of Orion's pack, the Egyptian dog-headed god, Anubis, and one of the dogs that slew Actaeon after he had been turned into a stag by Diana as a punishment for his unwitting intrusion upon her privacy.

By people who like the theological interpretation of mythological stories, the Dolphin is thought to represent Jonah's whale, but the usual belief makes it the sea-beast that rescued Arion from drowning at the hands of murderous sail

ors.

The musician was returning to Corinth from Sicily where he had won a valuable prize. The seamen of his boat coveted his wealth and prepared to slay him to ensure his silence as to their robbery. He begged the privilege of striking his lyre once more, and then he cast himself into the sea. He was not fated to die in this way, however, for a dolphin mounted him upon his back and bore him to land, where he made his way to the Corinthian court and confounded the ruffians by appearing before them when they assured the king that they had left his favorite in a foreign land.

Spenser describes as follows Arion in the train of Neptune:

"Then was there heard a most celestial sound
Of dainty music which did next ensue,
And, on the floating waters as enthroned,
Arion with his harp unto him drew

The ears and hearts of all that goodly crew;
Even when as yet the dolphin which him bore
Through the Aegean Seas from pirates' view,
Stood still, by him astonished at his lore,

And all the raging seas for joy forgot to roar."

Another sea creature immortalized in the sky is Cetus, the Whale, variably known as the leviathan of the Book of