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Aratus (315–245 BC)

Greek poet. While residing at the court of Antigonus II Gonatus he wrote his celebrated astronomical poem ‘Phaenomena’, which was very popular in ancient times and was translated into Latin by Cicero.

He was born at Soli in Cilicia, and died in Macedonia. St Paul's quotation in his speech to the Athenians (Acts xvii. 28) is from ‘Phaenomena’.



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Fragment #2 -- Scholiast on Aratus 254: But Zeus made them (the sisters of Hyas) into the stars which are called Hyades.
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It is, that as well after the renovation of the league by Aratus, as before its dissolution by the arts of Macedon, there was infinitely more of moderation and justice in the administration of its government, and less of violence and sedition in the people, than were to be found in any of the cities exercising SINGLY all the prerogatives of sovereignty.
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