PLEIADES. The Pleiades are Seven Stars beyond the Bull, which appear at the Beginning of the Spring1. Job speaks of the Pleiades,2 and of the Hyades, which are Seven other Stars in the Bull’s-head, and which mark out the East Point and the Spring. The Hebrew reads Chima: Canst thou bind the sweet Influences of the Pleiades? Can you hinder the Pleiades from rising in their Season? He gives them the Name, the sweet Influences of Chima; because of the Agreeableness of the Spring-season. St Jerome has translated Chima, by Hyades, Job ix. 9. and by Pleiades, Job xxxviii. 31. and by Arcturus, the Bear’stail, in Amos v. 8. Aquila sometimes translates it in like manner. The Bear is one of the most Northern Constellations; and Chima rather signifies the Pleiades.
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