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“When the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, are rising,
begin your harvest, and your ploughing when they are going to set.
Forty nights and days they are hidden
and appear again as the year moves round,
when first you sharpen your sickle.”
(Hesiod, Works and Days 383-386)

“Joyful at the fair wind, divine Odysseus spread the sail.
Then he sat and steered skillfully with the steering oar,
and sleep didn't fall upon his eyelids
as he looked at the Pleiades, and late setting Bootes,
and the Bear, which they also call the Wagon as another name,
that turns in its place and watches Orion,”
(Homer, Odyssey, 269-272)

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