summissiora

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-05-11
Primary meaning the lower stars
Literal translation the ones sent lower down
Variants
summissiora
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the lower stars celestial object

referring to the lower spheres of, e.g., Moon, Mercury, Venus

Summissiora forsitan propius in nos vim suam dirigunt et ea quae frequentius mota aliter nos aliterque prospiciunt.

‘Perhaps the lower stars, and those which look upon us sometimes one way sometimes another because they change position more frequently, influence us more directly.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 2.32.7

Genre: philosophy
Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1-3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 154-155

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). summissiora (Lemma #1807). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). summissiora (Lemma #1807). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). summissiora (Lemma #1807). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) summissiora (Lemma #1807), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1807,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {summissiora ({Lemma} #1807)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1807/},
}