inferna porta

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning place of the gate of hell
Literal translation gate of hell
Variants
inferna porta
Edited by
place of the gate of hell astrological place

2nd astrological place

Est autem ex his residuis quattuor locis primus, qui in secundo ab horoscopo signo constituitur: qui locus Inferna Porta dicitur vel Anafora

‘The first of thses remaining four places, however, which is located in the second place from the ascendant, is called the Gate of Hell, or the Anafora (rising up from the Underworld)’

— 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

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inferna porta (Lemma #1005). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inferna porta (Lemma #1005). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inferna porta (Lemma #1005). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) inferna porta (Lemma #1005), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1005,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {inferna porta ({Lemma} #1005)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1005/},
}