haereo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning to be adjacent
Literal translation to hang
Variants
haereo
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to be adjacent astrological concept, expression of relative position

of zodiac signs

Iam vero nulla est haerentibus addita signis gratia; nam consensus hebet, quia visus ademptus.

‘But no friendliness towards one another has been granted to adjacent signs: sympathy between them is blunted because the sight of each other is denied them.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.385 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 112-113

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). haereo (Lemma #2112). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). haereo (Lemma #2112). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). haereo (Lemma #2112). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) haereo (Lemma #2112), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2112,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {haereo ({Lemma} #2112)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2112/},
}