vago

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-10-25
Meanings
Literal translation
to wander
Categories
planetary motion
motion
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1. to wander

1.a to wander planetary motion, motion

caeloque rediret ac per descensum medios percurreret ignes Saturni, Iovis et Martis Solisque, sub illis post Venerem et Maia natum te, Luna, vagantem.

‘Here would another leave the celestial sphere and make his descent through the intervening fires of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun, and you, O Moon, beneath them, whose wandering path follows Venus and Maia’s son.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.4 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 300-301

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). vago (Lemma #2465). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). vago (Lemma #2465). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). vago (Lemma #2465). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) vago (Lemma #2465), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2465,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {vago ({Lemma} #2465)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2465/},
}