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Aratus was a Greek poet. He was born at Soli in Cilicia and lived about 270 BC. He was a favourite of Ptolemy Philadelphus. His poem Phenomena is a version of a prose work on astronomy by Eudoxus; one verse of it is quoted by St Paul in his address to the Athenians (Acts chapter 17 verse 28).
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Soloi (Soli) was an ancient Greek town on the coast of Cilicia in Asia Minor. The town was founded by Argives and Rhodians. The inhabitants became so barbarous that their dreadful dialect gave name to the modern word for speaking incorrectly, 'solecism'. The town was destroyed by Tigranes, king of Armenia around 80 BC but was restored by Pompey the Great less than twenty years afterwards.
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Soli is a Bantu language spoken in Zambia.
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