Aratus with Commentaries

For like that one, the remnant of Eridanos a legendary river, the much-lamented river, is carried beneath the feet of the gods. And it stretches beneath the left foot of Orion. The tail-bonds, which hold the tips of the Ichthyes, are brought together, descending from the tails, and they are carried mixed behind the mane of the Ketos, driven into one; and they are constrained by a single star of the Ketos, which lies upon its first spine.

Those stars, within a small measure and lying in a small light, revolve between the tiller and the Ketos, lying beneath the flanks of the pale Lagos, nameless. For they are not shaped like any recognized figure of limbs, like the many that pass in sequence along those paths as the years are completed, which some man of those no longer living observed and thought to call by name, having shaped them all in a heap. For he could not have spoken the name of all of them, separated one by one, nor could he have known them; for they are many in every direction, and the measures and colors of many are equal, though all are coiled about.

Therefore, it seemed good to him to make the stars gathered together, so that, lying one next to another in order, they might indicate the shapes. And immediately the stars became named, and no longer does a star rise in wonder. But these appear fixed to clear images; but those beneath the pursued Lagos are all carried quite airy and nameless.

Below Aigokereus Capricorn, beneath the blasts of the south wind, a fish hangs, turned toward the Ketos, like the former, and they call it the Southern Fish.