Gem´ini

(“ the twins ”). Castor and Pollux are the two principal stars of this constellation; the former has a bluish tinge, and the latter a damask red. As heaven’s high twins, whereof in Tyrian blue The one revolveth; through his course immense Might love his fellow of the damask hue. Jean Ingelow, Honours , i. Gemini. Mrs. Browning makes Eve view in the constellation Gemini a symbol of the increase of the human race, and she loved to gaze on it.—E. B. Browning, A Drama of Exile (1850).