Bithynus; and appears also by the Description of the Equinoctial and Tropical Circles in
Aratus,
[71] who copied after
Eudoxus; and by the positions of the
Colures of the Equinoxes and Solstices, which in the Sphere of
Eudoxus, described by
Hipparchus, went through the middles of those Constellations. For
Hipparchus tells us, that
Eudoxus drew the
Colure of the Solstices, through the middle of the
great Bear, and the middle of
Cancer, and the neck of
Hydrus, and the Star between the Poop and Mast of
Argo, and the Tayl of the
South Fish, and through the middle of
Capricorn, and of
Sagitta, and through the neck and right wing of the
Swan, and the left hand of
Cepheus; and that he drew the Equinoctial
Colure, through the left hand of
Arctophylax, and along the middle of his Body, and cross the middle of
Chelæ, and through the right hand and fore-knee of the
Centaur, and through the flexure of
Eridanus and head of
Cetus, and the back of
Aries a-cross, and through the head and right hand of
Perseus.
