corona

Latin · noun

variant Ariadnaea corona

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-09-23

Meanings

1. the Crown

2. halo

Literal translation

crown

1. the Crown

1.a the Crown constellation

In Virginis parte V. exoritur Corona.

‘At 5° Virgo rises the Crown.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.11.1

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. 2.304

2. halo

2.a halo celestial phenomenon

Memoriae proditum est, quo die Urbem divus Augustus Apollonia reversus intravit, circa solem visum coloris varii circulum, qualis esse in arcu solet. Hunc Graeci halo vocant, nos dicere coronam aptissime possumus.

‘It is recorded in history that the day the deified Augustus entered Rome on his return from Apollonia a circle of varied colours was seen around the sun, colours that usually appear in a rainbow. The Greeks call it a “halo.” We can call it, very appropriately, a “corona.”’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.2.1

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1-3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 22-23

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). corona (Lemma #1478). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). corona (Lemma #1478). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). corona (Lemma #1478). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/

Harvard

Meinhardt, K. (2024) corona (Lemma #1478), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1478,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {corona ({Lemma} #1478)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1478/},
}