affectio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning configuration
Literal translation state of being
Variants
affectio
Edited by
configuration astrological concept

of planets

Fac in puero referre, ex qua affectione caeli primum spiritum duxerit;

‘Assume, if you will, that it matters in the case of a child under what arrangement of the heavenly bodies it draws its first breath’

— 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. 482-483

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). affectio (Lemma #2763). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). affectio (Lemma #2763). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). affectio (Lemma #2763). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) affectio (Lemma #2763), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2763,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {affectio ({Lemma} #2763)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2763/},
}