regio

Latin · noun

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-09-02

Meanings

1. region (of the sky)

2. sphere

3. region (on earth)

Literal translation

region

1. region (of the sky)

1.a region (of the sky)

At illa regio caelestis per triginta annos velocissimo sideri viam praestat nusquam resistenti sed aequaliter cito.

‘But in the heavenly region the swiftest star, which never stops and maintains a constant velocity, has a journey of thirty years.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.0.13

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1-3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 10-11

2. sphere

2.a sphere astronomical term

tu vero, Gradive Mars rutilo semper horrore metuende, qui in tertiis caeli regionibus contineris

‘and you, Mars Gradivus, always with your fearful red color, whose home is the third region of the sky’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.10.14

Genre: astrological compendium Provenance: Sicily Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.38

3. region (on earth)

3.a region (on earth)

in nulla fallet regione horoscopos umquam

‘in no latitude will the Horoscope ever elude you’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.440

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 196-197

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). regio (Lemma #892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). regio (Lemma #892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). regio (Lemma #892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/

Harvard

Meinhardt, K. (2024) regio (Lemma #892), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac892,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {regio ({Lemma} #892)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/892/},
}