The third
“... pectus, fulgenti sidere clarius;” i. 356.
In the Fasti of Ovid, we have examples of the two latter of these significations:—
“Ex Ariadnæo sidere nosse potes;” v. 316.
“Et canis (Icarium dicunt) quo sidere noto
Tosta sitit tellus;” iv. 939, 940.
Lucretius appears always to employ the term in the general sense. J. Obsequens applies the word sidus to a meteor; “sidus ingens cœlo demissum,” cap. 16. In a subsequent part of this book, chap. 18 et seq., our author more particularly restricts the term sidus to the planets.
[105] Cicero remarks concerning them; “quæ (stellæ) falso vocantur errantes;” De Nat. Deor. ii. 51.
[106] “... vices dierum alternat et noctium, quum sidera præsens occultat, illustrat absens;” Hard. in Lem. i. 230.
[107] “ceteris sideribus.” According to Hardouin, ubi supra, “nimium stellis errantibus.” There is, however, nothing in the expression of our author which sanctions this limitation.