The expression sidus lunae, the moon's bright form, occurs in Pliny, Nat.
He then marched his troops through the breach, forward on the road to Megara, capturing the two Corinthian dependencies of Krommyon and Sidus on the Saronic gulf, in which he placed garrisons.
Herschel called his new world the Georgium Sidus (King George's star) in honour of the reigning monarch; but it has since been known as Uranus.
If he hadn't just happened to turn his telescope in that particular direction on that particular night, he wouldn't have seen this Georgium Sidus they made such a fuss about at all.
The position of the Sidus Ludovicianum, with reference to Mizar and Alcor, is represented in the accompanying sketch.
Yet may not the mean temperature of the Georgium Sidus be nearly the same as that of the earth?
In that way the inhabitants of the Georgium Sidus are already sufficiently provided for; they appear to have as little benefit of the light as of the heat of the sun.
La Place, according to his theory of Jupiter and Saturn, has found that the Georgium Sidus was exactly in those three points at those very times.
The Georgium Sidus is now visible to the naked eye any clear night.
Though this celebrated astronomer was the first who discovered the Georgium Sidus to be one of the planets of the solar system, yet no doubt can be entertained of its having been before observed and considered as a fixed star.
Lacedaemonian garrisons had been placed in Sidusand Crommyon by Praxitas when he took these fortresses, and again in Oenoe, when Peiraeum was taken quite lately by Agesilaus.
This done, he put himself at the head of his troops and advanced on the road to Megara, taking by assault, first Sidus and next Crommyon.
Small wonder, then, that her contemporaries lauded her as an oracle and as the most brilliant luminary in Alexandria's splendid galaxy of thinkers and scholars--sapientis artis sidus integerrimum.
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