⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ȧḫmiu ureṭu_. The stars which never set, but are always above the horizon were called ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ȧḫmiu seku_. The word _ȧḫmiu_ has often been taken for a mere negative, but it occurs by itself with the sign of _stars_ as a determinative ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂. And the whole term is written ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (_Denkm._ III. 271_d_ _twice_). As one of the meanings of ⁂ _ḫem_ is _minuere_, and as the ordinary meaning of the Demotic ⁂⁂⁂ is “small,” like the Coptic ϣⲟⲙ = λεπτὸς, it is not improbable that the stars received this appellation on account of their tiny size as compared with the Sun and Moon. They were what Horace called the “ignes _minores_.” The Sun and Moon, as we all know, are called in Gen. i, 16, the “Two Great Lights.”