Cicero's Tusculan Disputations / Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[¹⁹⁹] Pegasus.

[²⁰⁰] The Water-bearer, one of the six southern signs in the zodiac: he is described in our maps pouring water out of an urn, and leaning with one hand on the tail of Capricorn, another southern sign.

[²⁰¹] When the sun is in Capricorn, the days are at the shortest; and when in Cancer, at the longest.

[²⁰²] One of the six southern signs.

[²⁰³] Sagittarius, another southern sign.

[²⁰⁴] A northern constellation.

[²⁰⁵] A northern constellation.

[²⁰⁶] A southern constellation.

[²⁰⁷] This is Canis Major, a southern constellation. Orion and the Dog are named together by Hesiod, who flourished many hundred years before Cicero or Aratus.

[²⁰⁸] A southern constellation, placed as here in the Atlas Cœlestis.