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... Down the crowded slope of night-dark azure, While the Scorpion with red Antares Trails along the sea-line ...

— Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics • Bliss Carman

... Pleiades and ruddy Aldebaran joining their rays with the sun's at the time of the vernal equinox. The midsummer sign was the Lion (the bright Cor Leonis nearly marking the sun's highest place). The autumn sign was the Scorpion, the ruddy Antares and the stars clustering in the head of the Scorpion joining their rays with the sun's at the time of the autumnal equinox. And lastly the winter sign was the Water Bearer, the bright Fomalhaut conjoining his rays with the sun's at ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

... took on aureoles of light. As the sun still descended, the scene was slowly transformed; the splendor lessened; the clouds broke up into other forms; the thick strata mass dissipated itself; then came a golden haze over the wide west; the moon revealed itself over the head of Scorpio, with Antares beaming from a bright place ...

— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille

Words linked to "Antares" : binary star, binary, Scorpius, Scorpio, double star