Definition of Saturn

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Saturn

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

The metal lead.

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Saturn Quotations

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
Billy Corgan

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Umberto Guidoni

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
John Buchan

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
John Aubrey

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Marsilio Ficino

Saturn Translations

Saturn in Dutch is Saturnus
Saturn in Portuguese is Saturno
Saturn in Spanish is Saturno
Saturn in Swedish is Satunus

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