{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0653.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0653.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0653.tlg001.local001","title":"Φαινόμενα","titleGreek":"Φαινόμενα","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aratus Solensis","authorityName":"ARATUS Astron. et Epic.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0653-aratus-astron-et/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0653-aratus-astron-et/","editors":["Gilbert Robinson Mair"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Callimachus and Lycophron; Aratus","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1921","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/callimachuslycop00calluoft/page/380/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aratus Solensis. Φαινόμενα. ed. Gilbert Robinson Mair. Callimachus and Lycophron; Aratus, London, William Heinemann, 1921. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0653.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα, τὸν οὐδέποτʼ ἄνδρες ἐῶμεν ἄρρητον· μεσταὶ δέ Διὸς πᾶσαι μὲν ἀγυιαί, πᾶσαι δʼ ἀνθρώπων ἀγοραί, μεστὴ δὲ θάλασσα καὶ λιμένες· πάντη δὲ Διὸς κεχρήμεθα πάντες. τοῦ γάρ καὶ γένος εἰμέν· ὁ δʼ ἤπιος ἀνθρώποισιν δεξιὰ σημαίνει, λαοὺς δʼ ἐπὶ ἔργον ἐγείρει, μιμνῄσκων βιότοιο, λέγει δʼ ὅτε βῶλος ἀρίστη βουσί τε καὶ μακέλῃσι, λέγει δʼ ὅτε δεξιαὶ ὧραι καὶ φυτὰ γυρῶσαι καὶ σπέρματα πάντα βαλέσθαι. αὐτὸς γὰρ τά γε σήματʼ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξεν, ἄστρα διακρίνας, ἐσκέψατο δʼ εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἀστέρας οἵ κε μάλιστα τετυγμένα σημαίνοιεν ἀνδράσιν ὡράων, ὄφρʼ ἔμπεδα πάντα φύωνται. τῶ μιν ἀεὶ πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον ἱλάσκονται. χαῖρε, πάτερ, μέγα θαῦμα, μέγʼ ἀνθρώποισιν ὄνειαρ, αὐτὸς καὶ προτέρη γενεή. Χαίροιτε δὲ Μοῦσαι μειλίχιαι μάλα πᾶσαι· ἐμοί γε μὲν ἀστέρας εἰπεῖν ᾗ θέμις εὐχομένῳ τεκμήρατε πᾶσαν ἀοιδήν. οἱ μὲν ὁμῶς πολέες τε καὶ ἄλλυδις ἄλλοι ἐόντες ἰόντες codd. recc., cf. Schol. οὐρανῷ…","divisions":[{"label":"Section 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0653.tlg001.local001/#tlg0653-tlg001-local001-urn-cts-greeklit-tlg0653-tlg001-perseus-grc2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0653.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0653.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0653/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}