Aratus with Commentaries

And it the Dragon extends to the tip of the tail,
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and is cut by the coils. The very tip of its
tail ends near the head of the Helice Ursa Major bear;
and in the coils it holds the Cynosura Ursa Minor head. And it the Dragon
winds around her head, and reaches as far as her foot,
and then runs back again. And no single star
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shines upon it the Dragon's head alone, nor does it shine with only one star on its head,
but two on the temples, and two on the eyes; and one underneath
occupies the edge of the jaw of the terrible monster.
The head is slanted, and it looks exactly
toward the tip of Helice’s tail; and it is perfectly in line
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both with the mouth and the right part of the temple toward the tip of the tail.
That head moves toward the place where the furthest
settings and risings meet each other.
Near it, a figure like a man in toil
rolls. No one knows clearly how to say
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what labor he is hanging from, but they just call him
Engonasin The Kneeler. That one, suffering in his knees,
looks as if he is crouching; and from both his shoulders
his hands are raised; they are stretched, one this way
and one that way, to the length of a fathom. And above the middle of his head
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he holds the tip of the right foot of the crooked Dragon.
There also is the Crown, which noble Dionysus
set as a sign for Ariadne who had departed,
turning on the back of the weary figure.