Cancer, One of the twelue signes, so called because in Iune when the sunne is in that signe, it beginneth by little and litle to go backewarde from vs, in manner of the Crah fisheThis (saith Hyginus) was the terrible Crab that Iuno set vpon Hercules, as hee was fighting with the Monster Hydra. Whiche, for so much as it did byte him by the foote, Hercules killed, and Iuno after placed it among the signes.