piger

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning unaspected
Literal translation averse
Variants
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unaspected astrological concept

Residua quattuor loca pigra et deiecta esse dicuntur ob hoc quod nulla cum horoscopo societate iunguntur.

‘The remaining four houses are all feeble and debilitated because of the fact that they are not aspected to the ascendant.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.17.1

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.60


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). piger (Lemma #1003). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). piger (Lemma #1003). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). piger (Lemma #1003). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) piger (Lemma #1003), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1003,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {piger ({Lemma} #1003)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1003/},
}