Aratus of Soli: Phenomena and Weather Signs

For this one, not just a single star shines, adorning its head;
But its temples are marked with a double radiance,
And from its savage eyes two fiery lights blaze,
And its chin shines with a single radiant star;
You would say the head, bent down and reflexed from the supple neck,
Fixes its gaze upon the tail of the greater [bear].

Cic. b. 1.

And indeed we see the rest of the body of the Dragon through whole nights.

IX.

A. P. vs.
60-63.

This head here hides itself little by little and suddenly
Where the place of the Rising and the Setting are mingled into one.

That head, however,

Touching, like the image of one grieving and weary,
Turns. ---

Cic. b. 1.

which indeed the Greeks

X.

A. P. vs.
66.

Call Engonasin [the Kneeler], because it is carried resting on its knees.

Cic. b. 1.

XI.

A. P. vs.
71.

Here that Crown is placed with exceptional brilliance.

Cic. b. 1.

And this indeed is behind; but near the head
is the Serpent-holder [Anguitenens],

XII.

A. P. vs.
75.

Whom the Greeks call by the clear name Ophiuchus.

Priscian. Gramm. XIV. p. 517. ed. Bas. 1568.

XIII.

A. P. vs.
77.

And super [above] and supra [above] are made from supera, the former by apocope, the latter by syncope; for thus the ancients frequently pronounced them, and especially Cicero in his poems, as in his Aratus: