exsisto

Latin verb

Last edited: 2025-01-20
Primary meaning to rise
Literal translation to step forth
Variants
exsisto
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to rise astronomical event

Nam si obscurior et quasi caliginosa stella extiterit, pingue et concretum esse caeium, ut eius asspiratio gravis et pestilens futura sit; sin illustris et perlucida stella apparuerit, significari caelum esse tenue purumque et propterea salubre.

‘For if the star rises dim and, as it were enveloped in a fog, this indicates a thick and heavy atmosphere, which will give off very unwholesome vapours; but if the star appears clear and brilliant, this is a sign that the atmosphere is light and pure and, as a consequence, will be conducive to good health.’

— Cicero, De Divinatione 1.57

Genre: philosophy
Provenance: Rome
Date: 44 BC

Cicero. On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination. Translated by W. A. Falconer. Loeb Classical Library 154. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923. 364-365

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). exsisto (Lemma #2737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). exsisto (Lemma #2737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). exsisto (Lemma #2737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) exsisto (Lemma #2737), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2737,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {exsisto ({Lemma} #2737)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2737/},
}