ascendo

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-10-07
Meanings
Literal translation
to ascend
Categories
astronomical event
Related Lemmata 12 ›

1. to rise

1.a to rise astronomical event

et hoc tamen sidus et illud eiusdem naturae est, cum illud exiguo tempore ascendat, hoc diu proferatur.

‘and yet both these constellations are of the same character, although one ascends in a short time and the other appears slowly.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 7.27.4

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. 284-285

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ascendo (Lemma #1929). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ascendo (Lemma #1929). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ascendo (Lemma #1929). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ascendo (Lemma #1929), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1929,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ascendo ({Lemma} #1929)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1929/},
}