mala fortuna

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12

Literal translation
bad fortune
Categories
astrological place
Related Lemmata 3

1. place of bad fortune

1.a place of bad fortune astrological place

6th astrological place

et Mala Fortuna in VI. ab horoscopo signo constituitur.

‘and Bad fortune is located in the sixth sign from 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). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) mala fortuna (Lemma #1007), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1007,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mala fortuna ({Lemma} #1007)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/},
}