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Argo| Very large, bright constellation of the southern hemisphere, represented as a ship. It was described by Greek Astronomer Ptolemy in the second century AD, but now, to avoid confusion, is split into four: Carina, ‘the Keel’; Puppis, ‘the Stern’; Vela, ‘the Sails’; and Pyxis, ‘the Compass’. The last was formed from stars in Malus, ‘the Mast’, another former subdivision of Argo that has not survived as a separate constellation. |
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| Had you heard it from aboard the Argo, you would have declared it to be the sirens singing, and it would have been found necessary to lash you to the mast. For which reason they compel all those who are very eminent for their power, their fortune, their friendships, or any other cause which may give them too great weight in the government, to submit to the ostracism, and leave the city for a stated time; as the fabulous histories relate the Argonauts served Hercules, for they refused to take him with them in the ship Argo on account of his superior valour. But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growing red in the face, without making the Argo start an inch. |
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