positio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning position
Literal translation position
Variants
positio
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position spatial concept

ceterum innumerabiles ferri per occultum aut propter obscuritatem luminis nobis ignotas aut propter circulorum positionem talem ut tunc demum cum ad extrema eorum venere visantur.

‘However, innumerable planets move in secret, unknown to us either on account of the dimness of their light or because the position of their orbits is such that they are eventually seen only when they reach the extremities of those orbits.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.13.1

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. 254-255

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). positio (Lemma #1892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). positio (Lemma #1892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). positio (Lemma #1892). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) positio (Lemma #1892), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1892,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {positio ({Lemma} #1892)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1892/},
}