〈locus mortis〉 ‘place of death’
〈θανατικὸς τόπος〉 thanatikos topos ‘place of death’
〈—〉 mwt ‘Lot of death’
〈anafora〉 ‘rising time’
〈ἐπικατάδυσις〉 epikatadusis ‘following setting’
epicatafora
Latin noun
loaned from Greek
| Primary meaning | eighth astrological place |
|---|---|
| Literal translation | above the setting |
| Variants | epicatafora |
| Edited by |
eighth astrological place astrological place
in diametro huius signi locus qui fuerit, id est in VIII. ab horoscopo signo, Epicatafora appellatur
‘The place which is diametrically opposite to this place, that is, the eighth from the ascendant, is called the Epicatafora’
the sign after a cardinal point astrological place
= the place preceding a cardinal place
Si locus necessitatis in Mercurii domo fuerit inventus, et Mercurius sit in aliquo cardine constitutus, Mars vero et Saturnus in anaforis sint cardinum vel in epicataforis positi, damnari perficient.
‘If the lot of necessity is in the house of Mercury and Mercury is located on any angle, but Mars and Saturn are placed in the signs before or after the angles, they make the sentence carried out.’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). epicatafora (Lemma #1006). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). epicatafora (Lemma #1006). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). epicatafora (Lemma #1006). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) epicatafora (Lemma #1006), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1006,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {epicatafora ({Lemma} #1006)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1006/},
}