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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise

Note 1 — CANTO XXXI.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

The nymph Callisto or Helice bore to Zeus a son, Arcas; she was metamorphosed by Hera into a bear, and then transferred to Heaven by Jupiter as the constellation of the Great Bear, while her son was changed into the constellation of Aretophylax or Bootes. In the far north these constellations remain always above the horizon.

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