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The Dog-star; so called by the Greeks from the adjective seirios, hot and scorching. The Romans called it canicʹula; and the Egyptians, sothis.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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