pogonias

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-11
Meanings
Literal translation
bearded
Categories
celestial object
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. "bearded" comet

1.a "bearded" comet celestial object

a kind of comet

At quibus longior mora est et ignis fortior motumque caeli sequens aut etiam proprios cursus agunt, cometas nostri putant, de quibus dictum est. Horum genera sunt pogoniae et cyparissiae et lampades et alia omnia quorum ignis in exitu sparsus est.

‘But the ones which last a long time, and have a stronger flame, and follow the motion of the sky or even maintain their own course, our Stoics call comets (which have already been discussed). Types of these are: Bearded, Cypress Trees, and Lamps—as well as all the others which have fire scattered behind them as they go out.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.15.4

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. 78-79

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). pogonias (Lemma #1797). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). pogonias (Lemma #1797). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). pogonias (Lemma #1797). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) pogonias (Lemma #1797), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1797,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {pogonias ({Lemma} #1797)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1797/},
}