deiectus

Latin · adjective
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-03
Meanings
Literal translation
thrown down
Categories
astrological concept
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1. unaspected

1.a 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

2. below the horizon

2.a below the horizon

poetic

huic in perversum similis deiecta sub orbe imaque summersi contingens culmina mundi, adversa quae parte nitet

‘Like this temple, but with an inverse likeness, is that which is thrust below the world and adjoins the nadir of the submerged heaven, and which shines in the opposite region’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.891 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 152-153

Applied to the 5th astrological place, a trine of the 1st place. Hence it cannot mean unaspected here.
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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deiectus (Lemma #1004). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deiectus (Lemma #1004). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deiectus (Lemma #1004). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) deiectus (Lemma #1004), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1004,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {deiectus ({Lemma} #1004)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1004/},
}