[224] See the Dissertation of the Abbé Dominique Testa, Sopra due Zodiaci novellamente scoperte nell’ Egitto, Rome, 1802, p. 34.
[225] Delambre. Note at the end of the Report on the Memoir of M. de Paravey. This report is printed in the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, vol. viii.
[226] See the work of M. Biot, entitled, Recherches sur plusieurs points de l’Astronomie Egyptienne, appliquées aux monumens astronomiques trouvés en Egypte; Paris, 1823, 8vo.
[227] Letronne. Researches into the history of Egypt during the domination of the Greeks and Romans, p. 180.
[228] Id. ibid. p. xxxviij.
[229] Letronne. Ibid. p. 456, and 457.
[230] Letronne. Critical and Archæological Observations upon the object of the zodiacal representations which remain to us of antiquity, occasioned by an Egyptian zodiac painted in a mummy case, which bears a Greek inscription of the time of Trajan; Paris, 1824, 8vo, p. 30.
[231] Idem, p. 48, and 49.
[232] Varro, de Ling. Lat. lib. vi. Signa, quod aliquid significent, ut libra æquinoctium; Macrob. Sat. lib. i. cap. xxi. Capricornus ab infernis partibus ad superas solem reducens Capræ naturam videtur imitari.
[233] See the Memoir on the Origin of the Constellations, in Dupuis’s Origine des Cultes, vol. iii. p. 324. et seq.