To conclude, the ancient Romans (as Vegetius writeth) carryed in all their bands the escutcheon of a dragon, to signifie their fortitude and vigilancy, which were born up by certain men called for that purpose Draconarii. And therefore when Constantius the emperor entered into the city of Rome, his soldiers are said to bear up upon the tops of their spears, dragons gaping with wide mouths, and made fast with golden chains and pearl, the wind whistling in their throats, as if they had been alive, threatening destruction, and their tails hanging loose in the air, were likewise by the wind tossed to and fro, as though they strove to come off from the spears, but when the wind was laid, all their motion was ended, whereupon the poet saith:
When whistling wind in air ceast,
The dragons tamed then did rest.
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Andrew's Research Channel For this cause also among the fixed stars of the north, there is one Draco, a dragon, all of them ending their course with the sun and moon, and they are in this sphere called by astronomers the intersections of the circles, the superior of these ascending…
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