cui proximus Anguis squamea dispositis imitatur tegmina flammis; et Phoebo sacer ales et una gratus Iaccho Crater et duplici Centaurus imagine fulget, pars hominis, tergo pectus commissus equino.
Next to it is the Water-snake, whose stars are so arranged as to represent its scaly skin. Then shines the bird that is sacred to Phoebus and with it the Bowl beloved of Bacchus and the Centaur of twofold form; he is half man, joined at the waist to the body of a horse.
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