motus reddo

Latin · verb
variant reddo motus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-08-30
Meanings
Literal translation
to give back movements
Categories
motion
Related Lemmata 4 ›

1. to move in retrograde direction

1.a to move in retrograde direction motion

[cui parti nomen posuit, qui condidit artem, octotropos; per quod stellae diversa volantes quos reddant motus, proprio venit ordine rerum]

‘The founder of astrology gave to this section the title Octotropos; the motions of the planets, which fly through it in the opposite direction, shall follow at the proper place.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.[968-970]

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 158-159

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). motus reddo (Lemma #2308). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). motus reddo (Lemma #2308). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). motus reddo (Lemma #2308). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) motus reddo (Lemma #2308), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2308,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {motus reddo ({Lemma} #2308)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2308/},
}