exagonum

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning sextile
Literal translation hexagon
Variants
exagonus
Edited by
sextile aspect

respicere enim horoscopum de exagono videtur.

‘it seems to be aspected in sextile to the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.19.4

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. 1.62

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). exagonum (Lemma #1013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). exagonum (Lemma #1013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). exagonum (Lemma #1013). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) exagonum (Lemma #1013), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1013,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {exagonum ({Lemma} #1013)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1013/},
}