radio

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-20

Literal translation
to be radiant
Categories
astrological concept
luminary or planetary quality
Related Lemmata 16

1. to be in aspect

1.a to be in aspect astrological concept

Occidentibus Pliadibus id est VI. parte Tauri si a malivolis haec pars radiata fuerit, hi qui nati fuerint naufragio peribunt.

‘When the Pleiades i.e. 4° Taurus set and this degree is aspected by malefics, those who are born will die by shipwreck.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.7.4

Genre: astrological compendium Provenance: Sicily Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 2.300

2. to be radiant

2.a to be radiant luminary or planetary quality

Colores ratio altitudinum temperat, siquidem earum similitudinem trahunt in quarum aera venere subeundo, tinguitque adpropinquantes utralibet alieni meatus circulus, frigidior in pallorem, ardentior in ruborem, ventosus in livorem, sol atque commissurae apsidum, extremaeque orbitae, atram in obscuritatem. suus quidem cuique color est, Saturno candidus, Iovi clarus, Marti igneus, Lucifero candens, Vesperi refulgens, Mercurio radians, lunae blandus, soli cum oritur ardens, post radians

‘The colours of the planets vary with their altitudes, inasmuch as they are assimilated to the stars into whose atmosphere they come in rising, and the circuit of another’s path modifies their colour in either direction as they approach, a colder circuit to pallor, a hotter one to redness, a windy one to a leaden colour, the sun and the intersection of its orbit with theirs, and also the extremities of their paths, changing them to black darkness. It is true that each has its own special hue—Saturn white, Jupiter transparent, Mars fiery, Lucifer bright white, Vesper glaring, Mercury radiant, the moon soft, the sun when rising glowing and afterwards radiant’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.79

Genre: encyclopedia Provenance: Rome Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). radio (Lemma #1468). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). radio (Lemma #1468). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). radio (Lemma #1468). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) radio (Lemma #1468), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1468,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {radio ({Lemma} #1468)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1468/},
}