Aratus with Commentaries

The sea grows dark beneath the barren winds throughout the year; and we sit often, facing the shores, gazing out at the open sea as if we were diving gulls, while they are still being washed from afar; and only a little wood keeps death away.

And if, having suffered much on the sea before, you should descend in the evening when the sun burns and the drawer of the bow the constellation Sagittarius sets, you will no longer trust the night. A sign for you of that season and that month would be the Scorpios Scorpion rising at the end of the night. For indeed the great bow is drawn near the sting by the Toxeutes Archer/Sagittarius; and the Scorpios stands a little before him, rising, and he ascends immediately after. At that time, the head of Kynosouris the constellation Ursa Minor runs very high at the edge of the night, and Orion sets before the dawn, all together, and Cepheus from his hand to his waist.

There is also another Oistos Arrow cast further ahead, apart from the bow itself; and the Ornis Bird/Cygnus flies past it closer to the north. And near it, another blows, not so great in size, but difficult to encounter from the sea when the night is departing; and men call it Aetos Eagle. The Delphis Dolphin, not very large, runs toward Aigokereus Capricorn in the mid-air; and four stars lie about it, positioned two by two.