Aratus, Solensis, Lamb, John, 1789-1850 · London, J. W. Parker · leaf 21
avrjp. Aratus is said to have ended his life in Macedoniaat the court of Antigonus: if so, his ashes were pro-bably removed to his native country, as PomponiusMela, who lived in the first century of the Christiansera, states that the tomb of the poet was to be seenin his time near to Pompeiopolis,… … * Cydnus ultra per Tarsum exit. Deinde urbs est olim a Rho-diis, Argivisque, post Piratis Pompeio assignante possessa, nuncPompeiopolis, tunc Soloe. Juxta in parvo tumulo Aeati poetsemonumentum, ideo referendum, quia ignotum, quam ob causamjacta in id saxa desiliunt. [Pomp. Mela. Cap. 13.] t Vid.…
