accessus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning direct motion
Literal translation approach
Variants
accessus
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direct motion planetary motion

cum tempestatumque caeli conversiones commutationesque tantae fiant accessu stellarum et recessu ...

‘since, through the procession and retrogression of the stars, the great variety and change of the seasons and of temperature take place ...’

— 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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). accessus (Lemma #2750). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). accessus (Lemma #2750). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). accessus (Lemma #2750). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) accessus (Lemma #2750), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2750,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {accessus ({Lemma} #2750)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2750/},
}