praedictio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-20
Primary meaning forecast
Literal translation forecast
Variants
praedictio
Edited by
forecast practice

Chaldaeis in praedictione et in notatione cuiusque vitae ex natali die minime esse credendum.

‘No reliance whatever is to be placed in Chaldean astrologers when they profess to forecast a man’s future from the position of the stars on the day of his birth.’

— Cicero, De Divinatione 2.42

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. 470-471

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). praedictio (Lemma #2742). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). praedictio (Lemma #2742). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). praedictio (Lemma #2742). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) praedictio (Lemma #2742), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2742,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {praedictio ({Lemma} #2742)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2742/},
}