locus daemonis

Latin · noun
variant daemonis locus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
place of the daemon
Categories
astrological lot
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1. lot of the daemon

1.a lot of the daemon astrological lot

Fortunae etiam locus et daemonis, geniturae dominus, quem Graeci oecodespoten vocant, diligenti ratione tractabitur, et eius etiam, qui actus decernit, efficacias explicabo;

‘The lot of fortune and of the daemon, the chart ruler, whom the Greeks call οἰκοδεσπότης will be treated diligently, and the effects of that [planet] which decides the occupations’

— 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

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus daemonis (Lemma #1132). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus daemonis (Lemma #1132). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus daemonis (Lemma #1132). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus daemonis (Lemma #1132), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1132,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus daemonis ({Lemma} #1132)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/},
}