The meridian at midnight at the time of the spring equinox is called a "colure," -- the "autumnal colure," because the sun crosses it in autumn. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Where the four circles, the horizon, the zodiac, the equator, and the equinoctial colure join; the last three intersecting each other so as to form three crosses, as may be seen in the armillary sphere. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. ❋ Voltaire (1909)
All this being laid down, the only thing remaining to settle chronology is to see through what star the colure of the equinoxes passes, and where it intersects at this time the ecliptic in the spring; and to discover whether some ancient writer does not tell us in what point the ecliptic was intersected in his time, by the same colure of the equinoxes. ❋ Voltaire (1909)
Where the ecliptic crosses the solstitial colure is the spot where the sun appears to be when it is farthest north of the equator, June 21st. ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
Megres in Ursa Major; with α Andromedæ and γ Pegasi it marks the equinoctial colure. ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic. ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
The equator, ecliptic, and equinoctial colure intersect each other at ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
The position of the equinoctial colure is defined by a line connecting ❋ William Tyler Olcott (1904)
The lower part of the autumnal colure was marked by the Scorpion, and the foot of the Serpent-holder pressed down the creature's head, just where the colure, the equator, and the ecliptic intersected (_see_ diagram, p. 164). ❋ Unknown (1889)
For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Now the Serpent was so arranged as to be shown writhing itself for some distance along the equator, and then struggling upwards, along the autumnal colure, marking the zenith with its head. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Ophiuchus, the Serpent-holder, the man treading on the Scorpion, derives his name from the Serpent which he holds in his hands and strangles; the Serpent that, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, marked the autumnal colure. ❋ Unknown (1889)
When that was made, the year did not open with the stars in the _head_ of the Bull, but when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the middle or later degrees of the asterism Taurus, and the Pleiades were, in China, as in Canaan, the leading stars of the year. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
The reverence paid to Taurus continued long after, by the precession of the Equinoxes, the colure of the vernal equinox had come to pass through ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
Before the colure of the Vernal Equinox had passed into Aries, and after it had left Aldebarán and the Hyades, the Pleiades were, for seven or eight centuries, the leading stars of the Sabæan year. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
This evidently originated during those remote ages of the world, when the colure of the vernal equinox passed across the stars in the head of the sign Taurus [among which was Aldebarán]; a period when, as the most ancient monuments of all the oriental nations attest, the light of arts and letters first shone forth. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)
And as the equinoctial colure passed through the middle of ❋ William Stevenson (1784)
Nym hennyn and porke and seth hem togedere nym the lyre [2] of the hennyn and the porke and hakkyth finale and grynd hit al to dust and wyte bred therwyth and temper it wyth the selve broth and wyth heyryn and colure it with safroun and boyle it and disch it and cast theron powder of peper and of gyngynyr and serve it forthe. ❋ Samuel Pegge (1750)
