starlight Smith-Hall starlight: aethra siderea, Virg. Aen. 3, 585: ignes siderei, Ov. M. 15, 665: a s. night, nox sideribus illustris. Tac. A. 1, 50 there is s., *lucent sidera: sunt astrorum ignes, Virg. Aen. 3, 585.