phoebo sacer ales

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning the Raven
Literal translation bird sacred to Apollo
Variants
phoebo sacer ales
Edited by
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2025,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}