As long as that thing with four legs that barks
has been called a dog (a thousand years?):
Sirius has been a part of the Bigger Dog
since, I guess, Egyptian times.
(see Richard Hinckley Allen, STAR NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS (1899),
reprinted by Dover -- I must get my copy out of its box!)
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