Aratus with Commentaries

565 to establish signs suitable for those coming after.
But the Ocean himself would readily grant them on either side of the horns,
being crowned with much within himself,
whenever it carries each of them from below.
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They are not the weakest, when Karkinos Cancer rises,
the stars that wheel around and lie on both sides,
some setting, and others rising from the other side.
Stephanos The Crown sets, and the Ichthys Fish sets along the spine.
You might see half of it overhead, and half
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already touching the borders as Stephanos The Crown descends.
But, turned backward, it does not yet have all things
on its lower belly, but the parts above are carried in the night.
And it brings down the struggling Ophiouchos Serpent-bearer to his shoulders,
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Karkinos Cancer from his knees, and brings down the Ophis Serpent near the neck.
Nor would Arktophylax Bear-watcher be of much account on either side,
less in the day, but now more in the night.
For the ocean receives Bootes Herdsman descending with four
parts referring to four degrees or segments of the arc; and when he is satiated with light,
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he occupies more than half of the passing night at the time of unyoking the oxen,
when the sun sets as it descends.
Those nights are said to be late-setting for him.
For them, some set, and the one opposite is not at all unseemly,
Orion Hunter at the shoulders, trusting in his sword,
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carrying all the Potamos River, stretching out beside the other horn.
As Leon Leo approaches, all those things
that were setting with Karkinos Cancer are carried along, as is the Aietos Eagle. But he, on his knee...