colure
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For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
He is now advancing among the stars, and will soon be again upon the equinoctial colure.
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.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
"Where the four circles, the horizon, the zodiac, the equator, and the equinoctial colure, join; the last threeintersecting each other so as to form three crosses, as may be seen in the armillary sphere." v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis
Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
