heniochus

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-01-31
Meanings
Literal translation
the Charioteer
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. the Charioteer

1.a 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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2018,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {heniochus ({Lemma} #2018)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2018/},
}