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From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring.

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His middle dusky, but he has four eyes, Two parallel to two.

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Then blow the fearful south-winds, when the Goat With the sun rises; and then Jove's sharp cold, Still worse, besets the stiffening mariner.

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In his fell jaw Flames a star above all others with searing beams Fiercely burning, called by mortals Sirius.

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So thought he good to make the stellar groups, That each by other lying orderly, They might display their forms. And thus the stars At once took names and rise familiar now.

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Below Orion's feet the Hare Is chased eternally; behind him Sirius ever speeds as in pursuit, And rises after, and eyes him as he sets.

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Some man of ages past
Observed their goings; and devised their titles,
Forming the constellations. For the name
Of each star singly none could tell or learn; —
So numerous are they everywhere, and many
Of the same size and color, as they roll.
Thus he bethought him to combine them so,
That, ranged in neighborhood, they might present
Images, — each taking his proper name,
And henceforth none rising to doubt or guess at.

Aratus

Aratus

Aratus

Born: 315 BC

Died: 240 BC (aged 75)

Bio: Aratus was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phaenomena, the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena.

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Phaenomena

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