§ 2.5.2 But those who wrote the Argolica give the following reason. Others say these were pictured among the stars by Father Liber. It is called Procyon by the Greeks, because it rises before the greater Dog. The dog, however, from its own name and likeness, they have called Canicula. And so many have called Icarus, Bootes, and Erigone, the Virgin, about whom we shall speak later. Jupiter, pitying their misfortune, represented their forms among the stars. For this reason they repeat the story that no one afterward drank from that well. Some say that it cast itself into the well, Anigrus by name. And the dog made atonement for her death by its own life. As soon as the girl saw it, abandoning hope, and overcome with loneliness and poverty, with many tearful lamentations she brought death on herself by hanging from the very tree beneath which her father was buried. But the dog, taking hold of her dress with its teeth, led her to the body. It gave her no slight suspicion of murder, for the timid girl would naturally suspect her father had been killed since he had been gone so many months and days. § 2.4.4 But when Erigone, the daughter of Icarus, moved by longing for her father, saw he did not return and was on the point of going out to hunt for him, the dog of Icarus, Maera by name, returned to her, howling as if lamenting the death of its master. As a result, Arcas is seen following the Bear, and since he guards Arctos, he is called Arctophylax. And so, since both would have to die, Jupiter, out of pity, snatched them up and put them among the stars, as I have said before. Intent on killing her, he chased her into the temple of Jove Lycaeus, where the penalty for entering is death, according to Arcadian law.
When, grown to manhood, he was hunting in the woods, he saw his mother changed to bear form, and did not recognize her. But the scattered limbs of the boy he put together, and gave him to a certain Aitolian to care for. For this deed he was punished by no slight punishment, for Jupiter, quickly overturning the table, burned the house with a thunderbolt, and turned Lycaon himself into a wolf. For Lycaon wanted to know whether the one who had asked for his hospitality was a god or not. § 2.4.1 BEAR-WATCHER: He is said to be Arcas, the son of Jove and Callisto, whom Lycaon served at a banquet, cut up with other meat, when Jupiter came to him as a guest. About the Septentriones Homer says that she was called both Bear and Wain nowhere does he mention that Bootes was called Arctophylax. And so the one that followed the wagon and was formerly called Bootes, was now called Arctophylax, and she, at the same time that Homer lived, was called Bear. In this he seems to be considerably in error, for later, in connection with the seven stars, as Parmeniscus says, twenty-five were grouped by certain astronomers to complete the form of the Bear, not seven. Aratus, indeed, says that neither Bootes nor the Wain has these names for the reason above, but because the Bear seems, wagon-like, to wheel around the pole which is called North, and Bootes is said to drive her. And so the sign which is nearest to this they wished to be called Bootes. This reason has been handed down: Those who, at the beginning, observed the stars and supposed the number of stars into the several constellations, called this group not "Bear" but "Wain," because two of the seven stars which seemed of equal size and closest together were considered oxen, and the other five were like the figure of a wagon. § 2.2.2 But many have said that the Great Bear is like a wagon, and the Greeks do call it amaxa.
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