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1. Aratus
   (315-245 BC) Greek poet. While residing at the court of Antigonus II Gonatus he wrote his celebrated astronomical poem `Phaenomena`, which was very popular in ancient times and was translated...
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2. Aratus
   (from the article `crustacean`) ...are amphibious, being capable of leaving the water to scavenge on land. Some, like the ghost crabs (Ocypode), can run at great speed across ...
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3. Aratus
   Greek poet of Soli in Cilicia, best remembered for his poem on astronomy, Phaenomena.[4 related articles]
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4. Aratus
   Aratus, d. 213 B.C., Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League. His objective at first was to free the Peloponnesus from Macedonian domination, and he is credited with bringing into the confederation many of the principal cities of Greece. B...
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5. Aratus
   Aratus (urā'tus) , fl. 3d cent. B.C., Greek court poet, from Soli in Cilicia. He wrote an astronomical treatise, Phenomena, which was quoted by Paul at Athens.
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6. Aratus
   Aratus was a Greek poet. He was born at Soli in Cilicia and lived about 270 BC. He was a favourite of Ptolemy Philadelphus. His poem Phenomena is a version of a prose work on astronomy by Eudoxus; one verse of it is quoted by St Paul in his address to the Athenians (Acts chapter 17 verse 28).
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7. Aratus
   `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. ...
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8. Aratus
   (crater) `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...
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