ardeo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning to burn
Literal translation to burn
Variants
ardeo
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to burn celestial phenomenon

of the sky

Longeque magis illa, actae in transversum faces et caeli magna pars ardens et crinita sidera et plures solis orbes et stellae per diem visae subitique transcursus ignium multam post se lucem trahentium?

‘And this is far more so in the case of torches driven across the scene, much of the sky burning, comets, several suns, stars appearing in the daytime, and the sudden passage of fires dragging a long trail of light after them.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 6.3.3

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. 142-143

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ardeo (Lemma #1855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ardeo (Lemma #1855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ardeo (Lemma #1855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) ardeo (Lemma #1855), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1855,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ardeo ({Lemma} #1855)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1855/},
}