aselli

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-12-04
Meanings
Literal translation
little donkeys
Categories
part of constellation

1. the Little Donkeys

1.a the Little Donkeys part of constellation

stars in the Crab

sunt in signo cancri duae stellae parvae aselli appellatae, exiguum inter illas spatium obtinente nubecula quam praesepia appellant;

‘In the constellation of the Crab there are two small stars called the Little Asses, with a small gap between them containing a little nebula called the Manger;’

— Pliny, Natural History 18.353

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). aselli (Lemma #6127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aselli (Lemma #6127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aselli (Lemma #6127). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) aselli (Lemma #6127), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6127,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {aselli ({Lemma} #6127)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6127/},
}