7. Allen:

"Lesath, or Lesuth, is from Al Las'ah, the Sting, which, with λ, it [υ] marks; yet Smyth, who treats of these two stars at considerable length, says that the word is

formed by Scaliger's conjecture from Alascha, which is a corruption of al-shaúlah.

Lesath, therefore is not a term used by the Arabs, who designate all these bumps, which form the tail, Al-fiķrah, vertebrated twirls; they are formed by ε, μ, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, and υ, and it is supposed that the sting, punctura scorpionis, was formerly carried to the following star, γ, marked nebulous by Ptolemy.

But this γ is surely wrong; that letter really applying to a star in the right claw very far to the west of the sting, - as far as the make-up of the creature will allow. Still Burritt located it as Smyth did. Al Bīrūnī wrote that λ and υ were in the Harazā, the Joints of the Vertebrae.

Riccioli mentioned υ as Lesath vel potius Lessaa Elaakrab Morsum Scorp, vel Denneb Elaakrab; and Bayer, Leschat recté Lesath, Moschlek, Alascha, which we have seen for λ; but the proximity of these stars renders this duplication not unnatural."

What a mess! I cannot find any γ Scorpii. Neither in Wikipedia, nor in my astronomy book, nor in Cartes du Ciel. But a reasonable candidate is G (as in gamma) Scorpii, the very last part of the tail (thus a 'following' star). We must add G to our list: