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Summer's laziest stretch, named not for panting hounds but a star burning overhead.
star originNamed for Sirius, the Dog Star, rising with the sun
roman dreadAncients blamed them for fever, drought, and madness
timingRoughly late July through August in the north
sirius shiftPrecession slowly drags the dates later each millennium
not lazinessHeat once tied to disease, not relaxation