With the wife of Ptolemy III Berenice II, the legend of the origin of the name of the constellation “Hair of Veronica” is associated. According to her, Berenice cut off her beautiful hair and placed them in the temple of Aphrodite in gratitude to the goddess for the victory over the Syrians, granted to her husband. The next day, the priest-astronomer Konon told the royal couple that the victim was accepted and he watched a new constellation in the form of female braids.
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