locus daemonis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of the daemon
Literal translation place of the daemon
Variants
locus daemonis
daemonis locus
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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


Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1132,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus daemonis ({Lemma} #1132)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1132/},
}