heniochus

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning the Charioteer
Literal translation the Charioteer
Variants
heniochus
Edited by
the Charioteer constellation

modern Auriga

tum vicina ferens nixo vestigia Tauro Heniochus, studio mundumque et nomen adeptus

‘Next, bearing his footsteps near the crouching Bull comes the Charioteer whose calling won him heaven and a name’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.362

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). heniochus (Lemma #2018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). heniochus (Lemma #2018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). heniochus (Lemma #2018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) heniochus (Lemma #2018), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2018,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {heniochus ({Lemma} #2018)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/},
}