couragement of marriage, with a view to restore the losses of the civil war. Now the word n Benoth is derived from to procreate children; and a Succoth is derived from D to overspread, to cover, to protect, or defend, as laws defend or protect, or as a pavilion overspreads the people within it. That is, the laws which were made to protect the marriages to supply the state with children, and which were supposed to be published by Augustus when in his full power, are in reality the Pleiades, or Succoth Benoth, on the back of the Bull.

By the Archers in the passage now under consideration, I understand with Sir William, the sign Sagittarius, which is pleasingly typified in the Roman Historians, and in the Odes of Horace, under the appella

tion of Parthians: who are uniformly represented armed with arrows.

Other proofs might be adduced, but it is time to proceed to Tiberius.

III. Tiberius-Benjamin-Gemini.

BENJAMIN is described ravening as a wolf: if this alone would prove him to be the sign Gemini, we might apply, even with more propriety, this argument to identify Tiberius with the same sign.

The word Tiberius is derived either from Na wolf, or , qupanos, the higher, or elevated part of the land, or the Zodiac ; (vide the meaning of quaños, Bryant's Analysis, Faber's Origin of Pagan Idolatry, &c. &c. &c.) or from excellence, either of which will prove him to have been the sign Gemini.

He was evidently a wolf to the Roman people. He might be called, from his unexpected elevation to the supreme power; that is, the Twins appear to have attained their greatest height in the summer solstice. He might be called from the splendor of his station; the word appears to me to allude to the beauty, and splendor of the summer months. I incline to the first derivation, though it is not the most accurate; Suetonius represents Tiberius ravening as a wolf, in a fine strain of allegory.

I was fearful of meeting with some difficulty in proving that one individual could be considered as a double constellation. This objection is removed by the recollection, that Tiberius is said to have reigned some years with Augustus, on which account they were partly united in the imaginations of the astronomers.

IV. Caligula-Isaachar-Cancer.

CALIGULA is Cancer. The common people, who had lost the original meaning of the word Caligula, imagined that it meant a little boot, and invented the absurd story related by Tacitus and Suetonius, of an infant wearing a small military sandal to please the soldiers, who named him on the occasion Caligula. This Apocryphal tradition is the offspring of a later age; the original signification however is evident.

Among the emblems in the Astrological Calendar of the Egyptians, which describe the sign Cancer is puer sedens: Caligula,