cace tyche

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning place of bad fortune
Literal translation bad fortune
Variants
cace tyche
Edited by
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

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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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1008,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cace tyche ({Lemma} #1008)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1008/},
}