compositus

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning in aspect
Literal translation put together
Variants
compositus
Edited by
in aspect astrological concept

Et, si ad rem pertinet, quo modo caelo affecto compositisque sideribus quodque animal oriatur, valeat id necesse est etiam in rebus inanimis ; quo quid dici potest absurdius?

‘Again : if it matters under what aspect of the sky or combination of the stars every animate being is born, then necessarily the same conditions affect inanimate things also : can any statement be more ridiculous than that?’

— Cicero, De Divinatione 2.47

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. 480-481

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). compositus (Lemma #2762). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). compositus (Lemma #2762). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). compositus (Lemma #2762). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) compositus (Lemma #2762), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2762,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {compositus ({Lemma} #2762)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/},
}