ago

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-10-07
Meanings
Literal translation
to lead
Categories
astronomical event
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. to complete

1.a to complete astronomical event

e. g. a rotation

At, cum Cassiope bis denis partibus actis aequorei iuvenis dextra de parte resurgit, [...]

‘When after the appearance of twenty degrees of the watery youth Cassiopea rises on his right, [...]’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.504 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 342-343

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ago (Lemma #2518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ago (Lemma #2518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ago (Lemma #2518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ago (Lemma #2518), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2518,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ago ({Lemma} #2518)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2518/},
}