The zodiacs, the rolling orbs of heaven, Hast pictured on these walls and all around thee.
"The Death of Wallenstein A Play"
Frederich Schiller
Ben Jonson's touching lyrical epitaph on a boy actor, Salathiel Pavy, who had for "three fill'd zodiacs" been "the stage's jewel," shows how highly the Elizabethans sometimes regarded boy actors.
"Halleck's New English Literature"
Reuben P. Halleck
A line of connection seems, moreover, to exist between the Egyptian kabal samithe middle of heaven, the image of a bull in the centre of the zodiacs, and the bull of Assyria, under which image Baal was worshipped.
"The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations"
Zelia Nuttall