apollo

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-12-04
Primary meaning Mercury
Literal translation Apollo
Variants
apollo
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Mercury planet

proximum illi Mercurii sidus, a quibusdam appellatum Apollinis

‘The star next to Venus is Mercury, by some called Apollo’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.39

Genre: encyclopedia
Provenance: Rome
Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). apollo (Lemma #6050). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). apollo (Lemma #6050). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). apollo (Lemma #6050). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) apollo (Lemma #6050), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6050,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {apollo ({Lemma} #6050)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6050/},
}