heliacal

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They also possessed lists of the fixed stars, and drew up tables of the times of their heliacal risings.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

In about a month, followed the Stars of the Husbandman; the chief of them, Ras, Mirach, and Arcturus, being very nearly simultaneous in their heliacal rising.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

According to an extremely ancient belief it was the goddess Hathor Isis-Sothis who caused the inundation of the Nile which, according to the inscriptions, coincided with the heliacal rising of Sirius.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Dog-days, the name applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog-star.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices, and the heliacal rising of particular stars.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John