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Lucian consists of a image with Orion in a rhetorical description of an best constructing, in which Orion is walking into the increasing sun with Lemnos nearby, Cedalion on his shoulder. He recovers his sight there with Hephaestus nevertheless watching in the background. A different narrative on the constellations, three paragraphs long, is from a Latin writer whose brief notes have come down to us under the name of Hyginus. It begins with the oxhide story of Orion’s birth, which this supply ascribes to Callimachus and Aristomachus, and sets the place at Thebes or Chios. In one of them he...