Aratus

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Ἄρατος, ὁ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Ărātus: i, m., = Ἄρατος.
I A Greek poet of Soli, in Cilicia, who fl. B. C. 250; author of an astronomical poem, entitled Φαινόμενα, which Cicero, and afterwards Caesar Germanicus, translated into Latin, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 69; id. Rep. 1, 22, 56; id. N. D. 2, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 15, 16; Stat. S. 5, 3, 23 (Ărătŭs, Paul. Nol. Carm. 19, 125; Sid. Carm. 23, 112).—
II Aratus of Sicyon, a distinguished Greek general, founder of the Achœan League, Cic. Off. 2, 23, 81 (v. his life written by Plutarch).

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(3) Ărātus,¹⁴ ī, m.,
1 poète grec, auteur des Phénomènes, trad. par Cicéron : Cic. de Or. 1, 69