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Odysseus is said in his voyage in spring-
time to have seen the Pleiades and Arcturus
setting late, which seemed to early com-
mentators a proof of Homer’s inaccuracy.
Likewise Homer, both in the Odyssey [2]
(v. 272-5) and in the Iliad (xviii. 489),
asserts that the Great Bear never set in
those latitudes. Now it has been found that
the precession of the equinoxes explains all
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