Dog Star

The wild beasts are driven out of these places, at the time of the rising of the dog-star, by large gnats.

By the rising of the Pleiades, denoting the beginning of Summer, and by that of the Dog-star, the declination thereof.

Her tanned hide braves the heats of the dog-star, and, in the evening, she arrives as fresh as if she had just risen from bed.

The star Sirius—the Dog Star, it's called—it moved a good sixty degrees, then stopped dead!

An irregularity of motion resembling that of Sirius has been detected with regard to Procyon, the lesser dog-star.