stella mobilis

Latin · noun
variant mobilis stella
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
mobile star
Categories
celestial object
star
Related Lemmata 11 ›

1. planet

1.a planet celestial object, star

His illud respondebimus certum esse numerum stellarum mobilium, solere autem eodem tempore et has apparere et cometen, ex quo manifestum fit non illarum coitu fieri cometen sed proprium esse et sui iuris.

‘We will give this answer to their theory: the number of planets is fixed. Moreover, planets are usually visible when a comet also is seen to appear. Consequently it is obvious that a comet is not produced by a conjunction of planets but has its own existence and in its own right.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.12.2

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. 250-251

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella mobilis (Lemma #1883). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/
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Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella mobilis (Lemma #1883). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stella mobilis (Lemma #1883). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/
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Meinhardt, K. (2024) stella mobilis (Lemma #1883), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac1883,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {stella mobilis ({Lemma} #1883)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1883/},
}