Dog-star

Originally, it represented Sirius, or the Dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the Nile…

[the dark one] alive, kicking and sentient [1] 2009

Originally, it represented Sirius, or the Dog-star, the forerunner of the inundation of the Nile…

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Ruskin wrote "the dog is uncaricatured doggedness, divine as Anubis, or the Dog-star, the child entirely childish and lovely, the carpet might have been laid by Veronese."

Archive 2008-03-01 Hermes 2008

About the summer solstice, scanty rains, and great cold until near the season of the Dog-star.

Of The Epidemics 2007

Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

In the balerus and tilon a worm is engendered about the rising of the Dog-star, that sickens these fish and causes them to rise towards the surface, where they are killed by the excessive heat.

The History of Animals 2002

We are led also to infer that fishes hide in summer from the circumstance that the takes of certain fish are made between the rise and setting of certain constellations: of the Dog-star in particular, the sea at this period being upturned from the lower depths.

The History of Animals 2002

For instance, the sheat-fish just before the rising of the Dog-star, owing to its swimming near the surface of the water, is liable to sunstroke, and is paralysed by a loud peal of thunder.

The History of Animals 2002

It departs about the rising of the Dog-star, and it reappears from springtime to the rising of the Dog-star.

The History of Animals 2002

They do not go into hiding at one and the same season; but the snails go in winter, the purple murex and the ceryx for about thirty days at the rising of the Dog-star, and the scallop at about the same period.

The History of Animals 2002