absisto

Latin verb

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning to be distant
Literal translation to withdraw
Variants
absisto
Edited by
to be distant expression of relative position

signiferi autem ambitum peragit trecenis et duodequinquagenis diebus, a sole numquam absistens partibus sex atque quadraginta longius, ut Timaeo placet.

‘It completes the circuit of the zodiac every 348 days, and according to Timaeus is never more than 46 degrees distant from the sun.’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.38

Genre: encyclopedia
Provenance: Rome
Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). absisto (Lemma #6053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). absisto (Lemma #6053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). absisto (Lemma #6053). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) absisto (Lemma #6053), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6053,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {absisto ({Lemma} #6053)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/},
}