verso

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-10-25
Primary meaning to turn
Literal translation to turn
Variants
verso
Edited by
to turn verb of motion

transitive

hic erit una dies per senos undique menses dimidiumque trahens contextis lucibus annum numquam erit occiduus quod tanto tempore Phoebus dum bis terna suis perlustrat cursibus astra, sed circum volitans recto versabitur orbe.

‘Everywhere here a single day will last six months, a day which will keep a half year in continuous light, for in all this time, during which his course will take him through six signs, Phoebus will never set but will rotate in circling flight around the erect heavens.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.365 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 190-191

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). verso (Lemma #2362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). verso (Lemma #2362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). verso (Lemma #2362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) verso (Lemma #2362), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2362,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {verso ({Lemma} #2362)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2362/},
}