Aratus of Soli: Phenomena and Weather Signs

Cic. b. I.
XXX.
A. P. vs. 205. 206.

To this, that Horse, shaking its mane with gleaming brightness,
Touches the topmost head with its belly, and by joining one star,
Holds the dual forms together with a common light,
Desiring to connect an eternal knot from the stars.

Cic. b. I.
XXXI.
A. P. vs. 225.

Next, the Ram clings with twisted horns.

XXXII.
A. P. vs. 230.

Close by, beneath this, you may discern the supported one;
For it grazes the middle part of the sky, where those Claws were before,
Then where the breast of Orion is discerned.

5.

And nearby you will perceive a small sign beneath the bright breast
Of Andromeda, which the Greeks are accustomed to call Deltoton,
Because it shines with a form similar to the letter.
A. P. 235.

Each side stands extended in this space in a similar way,
But not the third part of the side; for it is smaller than those,
But it shines forth illustriously with stars dense from afar.
10.

The Ram is a little lower and inclined toward the blasts
Of the South. And furthermore, even more vehemently than that,
A. P. 240.

The Fishes, of which one slides forward a little before the other,
And is touched more by the horror-sounding wings of the North wind.
And from the tails of these, as if two chains of bronze,
15.

Turned for a long time by their departure, they creep through the lights,
And at last, they cling together in one star,
A. P. 245.

Which the ancients were accustomed to call the celestial Knot.