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Ara (the Altar constellation)

the Altar

also: Ara, Aram, the Altar

The constellation of the Altar, one of the inanimate-object star-groups the Stoics counted among the gods. Cotta lists it to show the incoherence of deifying the constellations.

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Mentioned in 22 works (28 mentions)

Aratea (Translation of Aratus' Phaenomena) phil · 3 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speech · 1 mention
For Marcus Fonteius speech · 1 mention
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech speech · 1 mention
For Lucius Flaccus speech · 1 mention
On His House speech · 2 mentions
On His Return: To the Senate speech · 1 mention
For Lucius Cornelius Balbus speech · 1 mention
On the Laws phil · 1 mention
For Titus Annius Milo speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 5.18 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 12.5 letter · 1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods phil · 3 mentions
For King Deiotarus speech · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.2 letter · 1 mention
On Divination phil · 2 mentions
Eleventh Philippic speech · 1 mention
Thirteenth Philippic speech · 1 mention
Philippica XIV speech · 1 mention
Eighth Philippic speech · 1 mention

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