sidus crinitum

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2025-05-11
Primary meaning comet
Literal translation hairy star
Variants
sidus crinitum
crinitum sidus
Edited by
comet celestial object

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 [crosswise], 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. (2025). sidus crinitum (Lemma #1856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). sidus crinitum (Lemma #1856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). sidus crinitum (Lemma #1856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) sidus crinitum (Lemma #1856), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1856,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {sidus crinitum ({Lemma} #1856)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1856/},
}