One served sentence carries the whole aetiology. To save the infant Dionysus from a jealous goddess, “Zeus eluded the wrath of Hera by turning Dionysus into a kid”, and “Hermes took him and brought him to the nymphs” dwelling at Nysa — “whom Zeus afterwards changed into stars and named them the Hyades” [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IV]. Nurses first, stars after: the constellation is a pension for services rendered to a god in hiding. Frazer’s note beneath identifies the tradition and its logic: Apollodorus follows Pherecydes, who “related how the infant Dionysus was nursed by the Hyades”, and nothing could be more appropriate than “that the god of the vine should be nursed by the nymphs of the rain” — rain-nymphs for the vine-god, weather written into the star-name [ibid., editor’s note]. That is the shelf’s entire holding: one clause of transformation at the end of a rescue story, steadied by an editor who saw why it was fitting. Thompson lists African and Toba parallels for the origin of these stars; both rows sit unresolved, so the Greek page — the address’s original — stands alone, brief and sufficient.