malus daemon

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
bad daemon
Categories
astrological place
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. place of the bad daemon

1.a place of the bad daemon astrological place

12th astrological place

Malus vero Daemon in XII. ab horoscopo signo ponitur

‘but the Malus Daemon is located in the twelfth 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

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). malus daemon (Lemma #1010). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) malus daemon (Lemma #1010), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1010,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {malus daemon ({Lemma} #1010)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1010/},
}