The Mind
Book IX, 25
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
This is the book of learned Aratus, whose subtle mind explored the long-lived stars, both the fixed stars and the planets with which the bright revolving heaven is set. Let us praise him for the great task -at which he toiled ; let us count him second to Zeus, in that he made the stars brighter.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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