hora aequinoctialis

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
equinoctial hour
Categories
unit of time
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1. equinoctial hour

1.a equinoctial hour unit of time

Sic fit ut vario lucis incremento in Meroe longissimus dies XII horas aequinoctiales et octo partes unius horae colligat

‘Thus it comes about that owing to the varied lengthening of daylight the longest day covers 12 8/9 equinoctial hours at Meroe’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.186

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. (2026). hora aequinoctialis (Lemma #6093). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). hora aequinoctialis (Lemma #6093). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). hora aequinoctialis (Lemma #6093). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) hora aequinoctialis (Lemma #6093), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6093,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {hora aequinoctialis ({Lemma} #6093)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6093/},
}