ales iovis

Latin · noun
variant iovis ales
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
Jupiter's bird
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. the Eagle

1.a the Eagle constellation

tum magni Iovis ales fertur in altum

‘Then soars to the heights the bird of mighty Jupiter’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.343

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 30-31

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ales iovis (Lemma #2013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ales iovis (Lemma #2013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). ales iovis (Lemma #2013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) ales iovis (Lemma #2013), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2013,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ales iovis ({Lemma} #2013)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2013/},
}