deltoton

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-01-30
Meanings
Literal translation
shaped like the Greek letter Delta
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. Triangulum

1.a Triangulum constellation

succedit iniquo divisis spatio, quod terna lampade crispans conspicitur, paribus Deltoton nomine sidus ex simili dictum

‘There follows, with two equal sides parted by one unequal, a sign seen flashing with three stars and named Deltoton, called after its likeness.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.351 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 32-33

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) deltoton (Lemma #2015), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2015,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {deltoton ({Lemma} #2015)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/},
}