avertor

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning to turn retrograde
Literal translation to be turned away
Variants
avertor
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to turn retrograde planetary motion, verb of motion

Non licet stare caelestibus nec averti; prodeunt omnia; ut semel missa sunt, vadunt;

‘It is not possible for celestial bodies to stand still or turn away. They all move forward. Once they are set in motion they advance.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.25.6

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. 280-281

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). avertor (Lemma #1912). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). avertor (Lemma #1912). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). avertor (Lemma #1912). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) avertor (Lemma #1912), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1912,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {avertor ({Lemma} #1912)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1912/},
}