PLEIADES

PLEIADES, in Astronomy, an assemblage of seven stars, in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

These stars are so called from the Greek $\backslash pi\backslash lambda\backslash epsilon\backslash kappa\backslash tau\backslash rho\backslash omega$, to sail; as being terrible to mariners, by reason of the rains and storms which frequently rise with them. The Latins called them vergilis, from ver, spring; because of their rising about the time of the vernal equinox. The largest is of the third magnitude, and is called lucida Pleiadum.