Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Libra

[the balance ]. One of the twelve signs of the Zodiac (September 22 to October 22), when day and night being weighed would be found equal.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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