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n. 1 (context Greek god English) A healer and a son of Asclepius and his lover, Aristodama, and the paternal halfbrother of Aceso, Aglaea, Hygieia, Iaso, Meditrina, Panacea, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros. 2 An ancient Greek didactic poet.
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Aratus (; ; ca. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα "Appearances"), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena. The second half is called the Diosemeia (Διοσημεῖα "Forecasts"), and is chiefly about weather lore. Although Aratus was somewhat ignorant of Greek astronomy, his poem was very popular in the Greek and Roman world, as is proved by the large number of commentaries and Latin translations, some of which survive.
Aratus is a small lunar impact crater located on the highland to the south and east of the rugged Montes Apenninus range. It is a circular, cup-shaped crater with a relatively high albedo. To the east is the Mare Serenitatis, and to the southwest is the somewhat larger crater Conon. North-northeast of Aratus is the landing site of the Apollo 15 mission, just beyond Mons Hadley Delta.
Aratus of Soli was a Greek didactic poet. "Aratus" may also refer to:
- Aratus of Sicyon (271–213 BC), an ancient Greek statesman, sixteen times strategos of the Achaean League
- Aratus the Younger of Sicyon, son of the previous and strategos of the Achaean League 219/18 BC.
- Aratus III of Sicyon, grandson of Aratus of Sicyon and ambassador of the Achaean League
- Aratus, son of Asclepius
- Aratus pisonii, a crab of American mangroves
Usage examples of "aratus".
If someone were to walk into the temple they wouldnt see Aaron, but a devotee performing arati.
Ever since Chali confided that he once saw s arm move at the height of the arati chant, Aaron has felt a pressing urge to sneak behind the curtain that shields the deities between services.
At evening arati, Aaron realizes he hasnt thought about the outside world since breakfast.
Since September he had been going through the motions of his classes, filling the chairs in the various classrooms and secretly chanting japa until he could return to the temple, staying there for the last arati and then returning home in order to get up the next morning and do it all over again.
Olivia sensed that it was not so much in defense of Conan that the Corinthian took his stand, but in opposition to Aratus.
I'm nearly deaf Aratus wished to cut out my heart, and Ivanos refused, to spite Aratus, whom he hates.
Aratus wished to cut out my heart, and Ivanos refused, to spite Aratus, whom he hates.
The Peloponnesian army, commanded by the two kings, Cleomenes and Demaratus, entered Attica, and advanced as far as Eleusis.
Their remonstrances being seconded by Demaratus, Cleomenes found it necessary to abandon the expedition and return home.
In great perplexity, he sent for the exiled Spartan king Demaratus, who had accompanied him from Persia, and asked him the meaning of such madness.
Demaratus replied, that the Spartans would defend the pass to the death, and that it was their practice to dress their heads with peculiar care when they were going to battle.
Instead of seizing the tyranny for himself, as he might easily have done, Aratus consulted only the advantage of his country, and with this view united Sicyon with the Achaean league.
Finally, the authority of this book condemns those like Aratus or Eudoxus, or any others who boast that they have found out and written down the complete number of the stars.
Francklin, who produced also the best eighteenth century translation of Sophocles, joined to his translation of Lucian a little apparatus of introductions and notes by which the English reader is often assisted, and he has skilfully avoided the translation of indecencies which never were of any use, and being no longer sources of enjoyment, serve only to exclude good wit, with which, under different conditions of life, they were associated, from the welcome due to it in all our homes.
The chair was still static, but the closer she got, the less room she would have if the apparatus swung into motion again.