Meaning of sea goat | Babel Free

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A mythical beast with the upper half of a goat and the lower half of a fish; commonly used to figure the constellation Capricornus.

Examples

“On the left of the label, containing the inscription, was a military standard and a sea goat, on the right a military standard and Pegasus.”

“Hence the two other names from very early antiquity for the sign, "the sea-goat" and "the fish-goat." The union of the goat and fish too is observed in the Dendera planisphere.”

“Some said that she to Talos was devote, The metal giant, who with mile-long stride Cover'd the isle, walking around by rote Thrice every day at his appointed tide; Who shepherded the sea-goats on the coast, And, as he past, caught up and live would roast, Pressing them to his burning ribs and side.”

“From this figuring Camões, in Os Lusiadas of 1572, called it the Semi-Capran Fish, as it is now with us the Goat-Fish and the Sea Goat.”

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