, or the She-goat, a name given to the star Capella, on the left shoulder of Auriga; and sometimes to the constellation Capricorn. Some again represent Capra as a constellation in the northern hemisphere, consisting of 3 stars, comprised between the 45th and 55th degree of latitude.
The poets fable her to be Amalthea's goat, which suckled Jupiter in his infancy.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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