I. Of or belonging to the constellations or to the stars, starry (poet.; “esp. freq. in Ov.): caelum,” Ov. M. 10, 140; “for which: arx mundi,” id. Am. 3, 10, 21: “sedes,” id. A. A. 2, 39; Verg. A. 10, 3: “caput (Noctis),” Ov. M. 15, 31: “dea,” i. e. the moon, Prop. 3 (4), 20, 18. “aethra,” Verg. A. 3, 586: “ignes,” i. e. the stars, Ov. M. 15, 665; cf. “Canis,” id. F. 4, 941: conjux, i. e. Ceyx (as the son of Lucifer), id. M. 11, 445: “Pedo,” who discoursed of the stars, id. P. 4, 16, 6: “artes,” Stat. S. 2, 2, 112: “sidereā qui temperat omnia luce (sol),” id. ib. 4, 169; so, κατ̓ ἐξοχήν, of the sun: “ignes,” id. ib. 1, 779: “aestus,” id. ib. 6, 341: “deus,” i. e. the sun, Mart. 12, 60, 2: “colossus,” dedicated to the sun, id. Spect. 2, 1: “polus,” Val. Fl. 4, 643.—
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B. In gen., bright, glittering, shining, excellent, etc. (freq.): “Venus sidereos diffusa sinus,” Val. Fl. 2, 104: “artus (Veneris),” Stat. S. 1, 2, 141: “ore (Pollux),” Val. Fl. 4, 490: “vultus (Bacchi),” Sen. Oedip. 409 et saep.: (Aeneas) Sidereo dagrans clipeo et caelestibus armis, Verg. A. 12, 167: “jubae (cassidis),” Claud. in Eutrop. 1, 351: “ministri,” Mart. 10, 66, 7; cf. “mares,” id. 9, 37, 10: “vates Maro,” brilliant, divine, Col. 10, 434.
