Note 37 — Chapter IX · THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIXED STARS
J. M. Ashmand translation
Called by the ancients χηλαι, Chelæ, or the claws of Scorpio; which sign they made to consist of 60 degrees, omitting Libra. Thus Virgil in the first Georgic, line 33, &c.
Quo locus Erigonen inter, Chelasque sequentes Panditur: ipse tibi jam brachia contrahit ardens Scorpius, et cœli justâ plus parte reliquit.
Ovid, likewise, takes the following notice of Scorpio:—
Porrigit in spatium signorum membra duorum. Met. 2, l. 198.