ORION. A Constellation in the Heavens just before the Sign Taurus. The Hebrew Word Chesil signifies, according to the ancient Hebrews, that Star of the second Magnitude which Astronomers call the Scorpions Heart. It appears at the beginning of the Autumnal Equinox, and forebodes Cold or Frost. Virgil give it the Epithet of nimbosus Orion. It also marks out the West. Hence it comes that the Seventy upon Job ix. 9. and Theodotion upon Amos, v. 8. translate it by vesperum.
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