ARCAS

, a name by which some of the old writers call the star Arcturus; a single and very bright star of the first magnitude, between the legs of the constellation Bootes. They say Areas, the son of Calisto by Jupiter, when he was about to have killed his mother in the shape of a bear, was, together with her, snatched up into Heaven; where she was converted into the constellation of the Great Bear, near the north pole, and the youth into this single star.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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