sīdĕrĕus, a, um, adj. [sidus]. 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, kat) e)coxh/n, of the sun: ignes, id. ib. 1, 779: aestus, id. ib. 6, 341: deus, i. e.