altior

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning higher
Literal translation higher
Variants
altior
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higher expression of relative position

Ceterum non est illi palam cursus; altiora mundi secat et tunc demum apparet cum in imum cursus sui venit.

‘On the other hand, its orbit is not clear. A comet cuts through the upper regions of the universe and then finally becomes visible when it reaches the lowest point of its orbit.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.17.2

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. 262-263

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). altior (Lemma #1898). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). altior (Lemma #1898). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). altior (Lemma #1898). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) altior (Lemma #1898), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1898,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {altior ({Lemma} #1898)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1898/},
}