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" Hence he asserts, that the nutriment of milk is first offered to infants, because their first motion commences from the galaxy, when they begin to fall into terrene bodies. On this account, since those who are about to descend are yet in Cancer, and have... "
The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus ... on the first ... - Page 279
by Proclus (Diadochus.) - 1789
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Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence from ...

Porphyry - Philosophy - 1823 - 298 pages
...they begin to fall into terrene bodies. On this account, since those who are about to descend are yet in Cancer, and have not left the milky way, they rank in the order of the Gods. But when, by falling, they arrive at the Lion, in this constellation they enter on the exordium...
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W.B. Yeats: Metaphysician as Dramatist

Heather Martin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 168 pages
...passage to which Yeats alludes in the poem is the following: Since those who are about to descend are yet in Cancer, and have not left the Milky Way, they rank in the order of the gods. . . . From the confine, therefore, in which the zodiac and galaxy touch one another, the...
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