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Horned Goat
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English
Etymology
en la Capricornus.
Proper noun
1 horned goat
en astronomy astrology The constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus.
en Goat Sea-goat the Goat the Sea-goat
en 21 Nov 1926 How old is the zodiac? The Woodend Star Victoria 4 6 Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.