APOTELESMATICA 2. (1) 14–140: SOURCES AND MODELS*

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sources the author uses, 56 but also due to his taste for elegant variations.
The application of the epithet briarÒw to Ophiouchus (l. 77)
is of a particular interest, as it seems to be not only a description of
a vivid artistic representation (cf. above, p. 78), but also a deliberate
allusion to Arat. 577 mogerÚn ÉOfioËxon, where mogerÒw “refers to
the effort involved in controlling the serpent” (Kidd ad loc. ). What
is more, podÚw y°nar ÑHniÒxoio (l. 81) is a direct reference to Arat.
718, where the rare in literature y°nar podÒw is applied exactly to
the Charioteer’s foot. The phrase y°reow purilamp°ow Àrhn (l. 72),
apart from recreating a Hesiodic atmosphere (see below, p. 95), is
an imitation in opposition of Aratus 850 and 977 xe¤matow Àrh.
As far as the account of the constellations of the Equator
(Apot. 2. [1] 83–92) is concerned, it is worth noting that Pseudo-
Manetho’s description of Orion’s Belt and Hydra is a careful imitation
with variation of Aratus’ corresponding lines: Pseudo-
Manetho changes the adjectives, replacing Aratus’ eÈfegg°ow with
yhroktÒnou about Orion and Aratus’ afiyom°nhw with épeires¤hw
about Hydra, retaining, however, the Aratean structure of the two
lines (the whole line occupied by the description of Orion and
almost the same word-order, three and a half feet for Hydra in the
next line).
Pseudo-Manetho opens the description of the tropic of Capricorn
(ll. 93–100) with sk°pteo (l. 94), often used by Aratus for the
introduction of a new topic. 57 With his goËna / émfÒterÉ ÑUdroxÒou
ka‹ KÆteow efinal¤oio / oÈrÆn, the author of the Apotelesmatica
offers a variation of Aratus’ chiastic expression about the Waterpourer
and the Beast in the description of the same tropic in the
Phaenomena (l. 502). 58 Now the description of Argo (ll. 97–8 ±d¢
ka‹ ÉArgoËw / pontopÒrou . . . êkra kÒrumba), apart from suggesting
an artistic representation of the ship on a globe the author has in
front of him (see above, p. 82), also echoes Aratus 686 êkra kÒrumba
. . . poluteir°ow ÉArgoËw. 59 ÉEstÆriktai, used by Pseudo-
56) For this, together with the Aratean passage, see above, under Astronomical
sources.
57) Lines 778, 799, 832, 880, 892, 994 (see Kidd on 778), always at verseopening,
as in the present passage of the Apotelesmatica.
58) Which echoes that of Eudoxus, ofl pÒdew toË ÑUdroxÒou ka‹ toË KÆtouw ≤
oÈrã (fr. 73,10 f., cf. Kidd on 502).
59) A Homeric echo (Il. 9.241), kÒrumba being a Homeric ëpaj legÒmenon,
see further Kidd ad loc.