(adjective) : sīdĕrĕus, a, um, sidus.
* 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.
* Transf.
* Heavenly, divine: arcus,Col. 10, 292: sanguis,of gods,Val. Fl. 7, 166.
* 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.