trado

Latin verb

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning to cause
Literal translation to deliver
Variants
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to cause astrological concept

of astrological influence

Quodsi haec astro ingenerata et tradita essent, nulla res ea mutare posset.

‘But if such defects had been engendered and implanted by a star nothing could have changed them.’

— Cicero, De Divinatione 2.45

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. 478-479

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). trado (Lemma #2759). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). trado (Lemma #2759). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). trado (Lemma #2759). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) trado (Lemma #2759), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2759,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {trado ({Lemma} #2759)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2759/},
}