phenomenon

Meteor

Cosmos

A streak of light from a small body burning in air. Not meteorite as the fallen stone, and not a star falling in omen speech alone.

Also known as Shooting star

Roman religion

  • Meteor appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History records meteors and falling lights among sky marvels of the Roman world. A named streak-phenomenon in that natural history, not meteorite as fallen stone and not comet.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

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