admoveo

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-25
Meanings
Literal translation
to bring together
Categories
aspect
relative position
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. to bring into conjunction

1.a to bring into conjunction aspect, relative position

Summa enim velocitas transeuntium est, ideoque omnis defectio siderum brevis est quia cito illa idem cursus qui admoverat abstrahit.

‘For, the velocity of stars in transit is very great. Consequently, every eclipse of stars is brief because the same motion that brought them rapidly together separates them rapidly.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.12.4

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. 252-253

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). admoveo (Lemma #1886). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). admoveo (Lemma #1886). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). admoveo (Lemma #1886). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) admoveo (Lemma #1886), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1886,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {admoveo ({Lemma} #1886)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1886/},
}