defluo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning to separate
Literal translation to flow down
Variants
defluo
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to separate astrological concept, astronomical event

of planets after conjunction

tertio rursus die diligenter debemus inspicere, et quibus se coniungat et <a> quibus defluat et recedat et quatenus se post primam coniunctionem secundis coniunctionibus societ

‘again on the third day we must observe diligently also to which [planets] [the Moon] forms aspect and from which it separates and recedes and how it forms second aspects after the first aspect’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.1.10

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. 1.199

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluo (Lemma #1145). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluo (Lemma #1145). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defluo (Lemma #1145). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) defluo (Lemma #1145), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1145,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {defluo ({Lemma} #1145)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1145/},
}