oecodespotes

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2024-01-05
Primary meaning chart ruler
Literal translation house-lord
Variants
oecodespotes
Edited by
chart ruler astrological concept

a planet

Fortunae etiam locus et daemonis, geniturae dominus, quern 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. (2024). oecodespotes (Lemma #1133). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). oecodespotes (Lemma #1133). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). oecodespotes (Lemma #1133). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) oecodespotes (Lemma #1133), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1133,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {oecodespotes ({Lemma} #1133)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1133/},
}