of the position of the most important circles on the celestial sphere. The third, from line 569, ad finem, describes the position of various other constellations on the rising of each of the signs of the Zodiac.
The Diosemeia contains prognostics of the wind and weather, derived from various sources, but chiefly from observations on the heavenly bodies. This latter subject does not allow of so much poetical embellishment as the former.
Aratus was the author of numerous other works: of a didactic poem in heroic verse, the title of which was Ίατρικά, or Ίατρικαί Δυνάμεις.
Macrobius has preserved to us one of his epigrams. It is on Diotomus of Adramyttium, who was a schoolmaster at Gargara, a city of Troas on mount Ida:
Γαργαρέων παισὶν βῆτα καὶ ἄλφα λέγων.
Of Gargaron is teaching children A, B, C.
Strabo quotes from another work of Aratus, called Τὰ κατὰ λεπτόν. Speaking of Gyaros, a small island in the Grecian archipelago, he says: Aratus points out their poverty in his Τὰ κατὰ λεπτόν:
Δειλὴ, ἢ Γύαρον παρελεύσεαι αὐτίχ᾽ ὀμοίη;
Or seek'st thou Gyaros, as wretched and as poor?
His other works, of which no fragments remain, but the titles of which are preserved by the writers
