Aratus of Solensis, Greek didactic poet, BC. His major work was the hexameter poem Phenomena. From a cornelian gem. Aratus Poeta in Corneola. Copperplate engraving from Francesco Valesio, Antonio Gori and Ridolfino Venuti’s Academia Etrusca, Museum Cortonense in quo Vetera Monumenta, (Etruscan Academy or Museum of Cortona), Faustus Amideus, Rome, 1750.

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