Environment / Atmospheric Prodigies

203BC

Event #656: Sun halo at Frusino

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Geographical sites:

  • Frusino (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #432852)
    Pleiades_icon Frusino settlement, amphitheatre Geocontext: Frosinone
    Description: Frusino (modern Frosinone) was a town in Latium along the Via Latina that was originally a Volscian settlement.

Citations:

Text #802

Livy. History of Rome. Vol. 8
[Liv. 30.2.12. Translated by Frank Gardner Moore. Harvard University Press. 1949. (14 Vols.) p. 373]

At Frusino a halo encircled the sun with its slender circumference, and then the ring itself had a greater circle bright as the sun circumscribed about it.

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