The early Arabs additionally made Two Dogs out of Cassiopeia and Cepheus, from which may have come Bayer's Canis but his Cerva, a Roe, is not explained, although La Lande asserted that the Egyptian sphere of Petosiris had shown a Deer to the north of the Fishes. Chrysococca gave it thus in the Low Greek Χείρ βεβαμένη and it sometimes was the Hand of, i.e. next to, the Pleiades, while Smyth said that in Arabia it even bore the title of that group, Al Thurayya, from its comparatively condensed figure. P144 the large Hand Stained with Henna, the bright stars marking the fingertips although in this they included the nebulous group in the left hand of Perseus. The Arabians called it Al Dhāt al Kursiyy, the Lady in the Chair, - Chilmead's Dhath Alcursi, - the Greek proper name having no signification to them but the early Arabs had a very different figure here, in no way connected with the Lady as generally is supposed, - their Kaff al Ḣadib, Hyde's title Inthronata has been repeated by subsequent authors and Cassiopeia's Chair is the children's name for it now. Bayer's statement that Juvenal called it Cathedra mollis was an error from a misreading of the original text. The Romans transliterated the Greek proper name as we still have it, but also knew Cassiopeia as Mulier Sedis, the Woman of the Chair or simply as Sedes, qualified by regalis or regia and as Sella and Solium. With key, is thrown back when the bolts are drawn.īut even Ideler did not understand this simile, although the outline of the chief stars well shows the form of this early key.
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