compositus

Latin · adjective
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-02-03
Meanings
Literal translation
put together
Categories
astrological concept
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. in aspect

1.a 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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2762,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {compositus ({Lemma} #2762)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2762/},
}