Aratus of Soli: Phenomena and Weather Signs

that were omitted in the earlier editions and finally added by Grotius. I have appended the old Latin Scholia to the text of Germanicus, and indeed from the Morellian edition. Victor Pisanus of Venice first published these Scholia under the name of a commentary found in Sicily along with the Aratea of Avienus and others (1488, 4to); afterward, they were repeated by Aldus; then in the Morellian edition, in the Cologne (1569, fol.), and in the Sanctandrean (Heidelberg, 1589, 8vo). Grotius did not admit them into his Syntagma of the Aratea. I have restored those Scholia, neither changed nor amended, except that I have seen to it that they are better punctuated; for they are written too barbarously and faultily for it to have been worth the labor to spend time on their emendation *). As regards the Metaphrasis of Aratus by Avienus, it has come down to us less corrupted than the remains of Cicero and Germanicus; I have repeated the Morellian text,