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FYSSH. The constellation Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac, is the exaltation of the planet Venus and lies in the northern hemisphere (Tetrabiblos, I.19).

Cambyuskan's guests make merry because their lady (Venus) sits high in the Fyssh, SqT 272-274. The time is midday, and Venus, exalted in Pisces, is very powerful. [Pisces: Venus]

Fyssh, the English singular rendering of Latin singular Piscis, appears medially, SqT 273. Fish is also used as the English plural.

R.A. Allen, Star Names and their Meanings, 338; Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, ed. and trans. F.E. Robbins, 91; C. Wood, Chaucer and the Country of the Stars, 100-101.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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