per vacuum currens

Latin · adjective
variant currens per vacuum
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
running through emptiness
Categories
lunar quality
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. running empty

1.a running empty lunar quality

sed illis intra cutem malignus humor semper inlapidatos articulos obligat, praesertim si per vacuum currens, quam Graeci cenodromon dicunt

‘they will suffer from malignant humors under the skin which will attack their joints, especially if the moon is running empty (void of course), which the Greeks call κενοδρόμος’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.8.1

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. 1.207

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacuum currens (Lemma #1156). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacuum currens (Lemma #1156). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacuum currens (Lemma #1156). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) per vacuum currens (Lemma #1156), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1156,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {per vacuum currens ({Lemma} #1156)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1156/},
}