Aratus (Ara`tus) , native of Sicyon, in Greece, promoter of the Achæan League, in which he was thwarted by Philip of Macedon, was poisoned, it is said, by his order (271-213 B.C.); also a Greek poet, author of two didactic poems, born in Cilicia, quoted by St Paul in Acts xvii. 28.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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