There earth, there heaven, there ocean he design'd,— Th' unwearied sun, the moon completely round,— The starry lights, that heaven's high convex crown'd,— The Pleiades, Hyads, with the Northern Team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye; Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main,— The Bear, whom trusting rustics call the Wain. [Sidenote: THE PLEIADES.] "But people in general have been deceived by fancying the πελειάδες here spoken of to be birds, first of all from the poetical form of the word, because of the insertion of the letter ε; and secondly, because they have taken the word τρήρωνες, 'trembling,' as an epithet only of doves; since, owing to its weakness, that is a very cautious bird; and when he calls it τρήρων, this word is derived from τρέω, and τρέω is the same as εὐλαβέομαι, to be cautious. But still there is a good deal of reason in attributing the same characteristic also to the Pleiades: for the fable is, that they are always fleeing from Orion, since their mother Pleione is constantly pursued by Orion. 80. "And the variation of the name, so that the Pleiades are called both πέλειαι and πελειάδες, occurs in many poets. First of all, Myro the Byzantian admirably caught the feeling of the Homeric poems, saying in her poem entitled Memory, that the Pleiades convey ambrosia to Jupiter. But Crates the critic, endeavouring to appropriate to himself the credit due to her, produces that assertion as his own. Simonides also has called the Pleiades Πελειάδες, in the following lines:— And may great Mercury, whose protecting pow'r Watches o'er contests, Maia's mighty son, Grant you success. But Atlas was the sire Of seven dark-hair'd daughters, beautiful, Surpassing all the maidens upon earth, And now in heaven they're call'd Peleiades. Here he distinctly calls the Pleiades Πελειάδες, for they it was who were the daughters of Atlas; as Pindar says— And it is natural That great Orion should advance Not far from the seven Pleiades, at the tail (ὀρίας). For, in the arrangement of the stars, Orion is not far from the Pleiades; from which circumstance has arisen the fable about them, that they, with their mother Pleione, are always fleeing from Orion. But when he calls the Pleiades ὄριαι here, he means οὔριαι, only he has left out the v, because the Pleiades are close to the tail of the Bull. And Æschylus has spoken still more plainly, playing on their name on account of the resemblance of its sound, where he says— The seven celebrated daughters of The mighty Atlas, much bewail'd with tears Their father's heaven-supporting toil; where they Now take the form of night-appearing visions, The wingless Peleiades.