olenie

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning Capella (α Aurigae)
Literal translation the Olenian one
Variants
olenie
Edited by
Capella (α Aurigae) star

Olenie servans praegressos tollitur Haedos

‘there rises the Olenian goat, keeping watch over the Kids which stray ahead’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.130

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 310-311

"Olenian either as being on the left arm (ὠλένη) of the Charioteer, or as the daughter of Olenus (Schol. Aratus, Phaen. 164), or from Olenus in Achaea, its residence (Strabo 8. 7. 5)." (Goold 1977: 310)
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). olenie (Lemma #2527). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). olenie (Lemma #2527). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). olenie (Lemma #2527). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) olenie (Lemma #2527), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2527,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {olenie ({Lemma} #2527)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2527/},
}