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Chapter Xviii. What Are Those Stars Which Are Called the Dioscuri, the

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies · 46-120? Plutarch — chapter 50 of 144 · ~43 words · public domain

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TWINS, OR CASTOR AND POLLUX?

Xenophanes says that those which appear as stars in the tops of ships are little clouds brilliant 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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