Aratus with Commentaries

This page contains a fragment of the previous text's continuation, though the OCR structure suggests a dense critical apparatus and poetic lines.

The one is beautiful and great beneath both feet of the Hydrochoos, and the other is beneath the tail of the dark Ketos; all of these they call Water. Yet a few other unknown stars revolve in a circle beneath the front feet of the Toxeutes.

But beneath the burning sting of the great monster Scorpios, near the south, the Thyterion hangs. You will not see it for a long time while it is high; for it rises opposite to Arktouros. And the paths of Arktouros are entirely lofty, but this one goes more quickly under the western sea.

But ancient Night, weeping for the toil of men, placed even that Thyterion as a great sign of the sea-winter. For ships are distracted from their mind at that time; and it shows one sign after another, pitying the storm-tossed men. Therefore, do not pray for that star to appear to me in the middle of the sky when it is wrapped in other clouds, while it is itself cloudless and bright, but pressed down higher by a surging cloud, like the many [others].