absisto

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-10-07
Meanings
Literal translation
to withdraw
Categories
expression of relative position
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. to be distant

1.a 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.

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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6053,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {absisto ({Lemma} #6053)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6053/},
}