praedico

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-01-20
Meanings
Literal translation
to proclaim
Categories
practice
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1. to predict

1.a to predict practice

Nominat etiam Panaetius, qui unus e Stoicis astrologorum praedicta reiecit, Anchialum et Cassandrum, summos astrologos illius aetatis, qua erat ipse, cum in ceteris astrologiae partibus excellerent, hoc praedictionis genere re non usos.

‘Panaetius, too, who was the only one of the Stoics to reject the prophecies of astrologers, mentions Anchialus and Cassander as the greatest astronomers of his day and states that they did not employ their art as a means of divining, though they were eminent in all other branches of astronomy.’

— 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)
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2744,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {praedico ({Lemma} #2744)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2744/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2744/},
}