oriens aequinoctialis

Latin · noun
variant aequinoctialis oriens
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
equinoctial sunrise
Categories
cardinal direction
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. due east

1.a due east cardinal direction

Qui surgit ab oriente aequinoctiali, subsolanus apud nos dicitur, Graeci illum ἀφηλιώτην vocant

‘The wind which4 rises from the equinoctial sunrise [E.] is called by us Subsolanus; the Greeks call it the Apheliotes.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.16.4

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 106-107

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). oriens aequinoctialis (Lemma #1827). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). oriens aequinoctialis (Lemma #1827). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). oriens aequinoctialis (Lemma #1827). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) oriens aequinoctialis (Lemma #1827), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1827,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {oriens aequinoctialis ({Lemma} #1827)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1827/},
}