phoebus

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
radiant
Categories
luminary
Related Lemmata 11 ›

1. Sun

1.a Sun luminary

poetic

Quod nisi librato penderet pondere tellus, non ageret currus, mundi subeuntibus astris, Phoebus ab occasu et numquam remearet ad ortus

‘And did not the Earth’s weight hang poised, the Sun would not drive his car past his setting, as the stars of heaven appeared, and would never return to his rising’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.173 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 16-17

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebus (Lemma #1975). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebus (Lemma #1975). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebus (Lemma #1975). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) phoebus (Lemma #1975), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1975,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {phoebus ({Lemma} #1975)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1975/},
}