stella cadens

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning meteor
Literal translation falling star
Variants
stella cadens
cadens stella
Edited by
meteor celestial phenomenon, star

Puta enim me confiteri verum esse quod dicis, aliquando post tonitrua emicare ignes stellis transversis et cadentibus similes, non ob hoc tonitrua facta sunt, sed, cum hoc fieret, tonitrua facta sunt.

‘Consider that I admit what you say is true, that sometimes after thunder fires gleam like shooting and falling stars. Thunder was not caused on this account, but when this happened thunder occurred.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 2.55.3

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. 186-187

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella cadens (Lemma #1811). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella cadens (Lemma #1811). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella cadens (Lemma #1811). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) stella cadens (Lemma #1811), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1811,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {stella cadens ({Lemma} #1811)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1811/},
}