concept
The Dog Star
Dog Star
also: Icarii canis stella
Sirius, the scorching 'star of Icarius's dog' that rises in high summer and parches the land; here it cannot dry the well-watered Paelignian fields.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.16 star of Icarius's dog
Sirius, the parching Dog Star of high summer; even it cannot dry the streaming Paelignian fields.
- The Festivals §4.25 Dog-star
Sirius, the Icarian Dog, at whose rising the parched earth thirsts; a dog is offered for the name's sake.
- The Festivals §5.22 Dog of Erigone
The faithful hound Maera, set in heaven near Erigone, daughter of Icarius.