Boötes (Bo-oʹ-tees)

or the ox-driver, a constellation. According to ancient mythology, Boötes invented the plough, to which he yoked two oxen, and at death, being taken to heaven with his plough and oxen, was made a constellation. Homer calls it “the wagoner.”

“Wide oʹer the spacious regions of the north,

That see Boötes urge his tardy wain.”