per vacuum currens

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning running empty
Literal translation running through emptiness
Variants
per vacuum currens
currens per vacuum
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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


Cite this entry
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: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1156,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	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/},
}