II. iv. 288. fiery Trigon. Poins continues the

astrological figure by referring to the red-nosed Bar- dolph as the fiery Trigon. When the three superior planets were in that division of the zodiac which consisted of the three so-called fiery signs, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, they were said to be in the fiery Trigon, or triangle; when they were in Cancers
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Scorpio,, and Pisces,, they were in the watery Trigon, etc.