SPICA • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Spica

... of the stars alone it would have been difficult. Therefore I remember that in order to be exact, I calculated the future conjunctions of those two planets," and he pointed to Saturn and Jupiter. "Finding that one of these occurred near yonder star," and he indicated the bright orb, Spica, "at a certain time, I determined that then I would awake. Behold! There are the stars as I engraved them from my foreknowledge, upon this chart, and there those two great planets hang in conjunction. Daughter Yva, my wisdom has not failed ...

— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

... belong all the bright stars ([beta], [gamma], [delta], [epsilon], [zeta], [eta] and others) in Orion with the exception of Betelgeuze. Further, Spica and many other ...

— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier