abscondo

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-12-02
Meanings
Literal translation
to hide
Categories
astronomical phenomenon
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1. to hide

1.a to hide astronomical phenomenon

of stars/planets hidden by sunlight

quod sidera abscondit, quod terras, cum tanto maior sit illis, non urit sed calorem suum intensionibus ac remissionibus temperando fovet, quod lunam numquam implet nisi adversam sibi, nec obscurat nisi obliquam

‘t hides the stars. Although the sun is much larger than the earth it does not burn it up but fosters it by controlling its heat in an alternately more intense and more subdued degree. It never causes the moon to be full unless it is opposite, nor dims it by phases unless it is oblique.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.1.3

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 228-229

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). abscondo (Lemma #1861). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1861/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). abscondo (Lemma #1861). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1861/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). abscondo (Lemma #1861). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1861/
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1861,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {abscondo ({Lemma} #1861)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1861/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1861/},
}