animo complexus sum

Latin · verb
variant complexus sum animo
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
to be embraced by the mind
Categories
astrological
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. to love

1.a to love astrological

Libra suos sequitur sensus solumque videndo Lanigerum atque animo complexa est Scorpion infra.

‘The Balance heeds his own counsel and has embraced with his gaze none but the Ram and with his heart the Scorpion beneath.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.501 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 122-123

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). animo complexus sum (Lemma #2296). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). animo complexus sum (Lemma #2296). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). animo complexus sum (Lemma #2296). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) animo complexus sum (Lemma #2296), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2296,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {animo complexus sum ({Lemma} #2296)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2296/},
}