defluctio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning separation
Literal translation flowing down
Variants
defluctio
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separation astrological concept, astronomical event

of planets after conjunction

In hoc itaque libro id principe loco explicabitur, quod in posterioribus tertii libri partibus promisimus, idest Lunae omnes species ac formae, coniunctiones etiam, defluctiones et quicquid ad eius numinis pertinet potestatem;

‘In this book, in the first place, will be explained, what we promised in the last parts of book 3: the shapes and appearances of the moon, also the conjunctions, defluxions and whatever pertains to her power’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.0.4

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. 1.196


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluctio (Lemma #1131). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluctio (Lemma #1131). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluctio (Lemma #1131). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) defluctio (Lemma #1131), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1131,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {defluctio ({Lemma} #1131)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1131/},
}