phoebo sacer ales

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
bird sacred to Apollo
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. the Raven

1.a the Raven constellation

et Phoebo sacer ales et una gratus Iaccho Crater et duplici Centaurus imagine fulget

‘Then shines the bird that is sacred to Phoebus [i. e. the Raven] and with it the Bowl beloved of Bacchus and the Centaur of twofold form;’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.417 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 36-37

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebo sacer ales (Lemma #2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebo sacer ales (Lemma #2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). phoebo sacer ales (Lemma #2025). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) phoebo sacer ales (Lemma #2025), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2025,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {phoebo sacer ales ({Lemma} #2025)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2025/},
}