cace tyche

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-01

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

sed Malam fortunam Graeci cacen tychen appellant

‘but Bad fortune the Greeks call κακὴν τύχην’

— 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). cace tyche (Lemma #1008). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cace tyche (Lemma #1008). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cace tyche (Lemma #1008). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cace tyche (Lemma #1008), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1008,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cace tyche ({Lemma} #1008)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/},
}