A sigue in heauen compact of many starres. Astrorum dominus. Sen. The sunne. Ignès astrorum. Virg. Vices astrorum. Stat. Æcerna astra. Sen. Æthera astra. Virg. Ardua astra. Virg. Ignea. Lucan. Light and shining. Prodigiosa. Stat. Radiantia. Ouid. Glistening. Rolcida. Stat. Vaga. Sen. Duodena astra. Virg. The rii. signes of the Zodiake. Cadentibus primis aftris. Virg. Almust day, when the starres begin to go downe. Noctem ducentibus astris. Virg. Ortus inclinat astra. Stat. Inoffensos agant astra cursus. Sen. Efferre se ad astra. Sil. To crtoll to heauen. Surgenubus astras. Virg. In the beginning of night: when the starres begin to rise. Suspicere astra Cic. Tollere ad astra. Virg.

I. Lit., Verg. E. 9, 47; id. A. 4, 352; 5, 838; 8, 590; Ov. M. 1, 73; 11, 309; Hor. C. 3, 21, 24; 3, 27, 31; id. Epod. 16, 61; id. Ep. 2, 2, 187; Prop. 2, 32, 50; 3, 16, 15; Mart. 8, 21 al.; Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24; id. N. D. 2, 46, 118; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; id. Tim. 12.—In Vulg. only plur.: astra caeli, Deut. 4, 10; 10, 22; 28, 62: donec egrediantur astra, 2 Esdr. 4, 21: astra matutina, Job, 38, 7.—

II. Trop.

A. For height: turris educta sub astra, Verg. A. 2, 460: Ter spumam elisam et rorantia vidimus astra, id. ib. 3, 567: Mons ibi verticibus petit arduus astra duobus, Ov. M. 1, 316: super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum, Vulg. Isa. 14, 13 al.—

B. Heaven, and the immortality of the glory connected with it: sic itur ad astra, Verg. A. 9, 641: aliquem inferre astris, Ov. M. 9, 272; 15, 846: Daphnimque tuum tollemus ad astra; Daphnim ad astra feremus, Verg. E. 5, 52: educere in astra, Hor. C. 4, 2, 23: absentem rusticus urbem Tollit ad astra, praises to the skies, id. S. 2, 7, 29 al.: Hortalus nostras laudes in astra sustulit, extolled to the skies, Cic. Att. 2, 25, 1 (cf. the opp.: decidere ex astris, i. e. summam gloriam perdere, id. ib. 2, 21, 4).