stationem facio

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning to become stationary
Literal translation to make a station
Variants
stationem facio
facio stationem
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to become stationary astronomical event, synodic phenomenon

Si vero per noctem minuta luminibus Saturno retrograde vel stationem facienti se Luna coniunxerit, magnarum infelicitatum decernit <incommoda>;

‘If however in a night chart the waning Moon aspects Saturn while in retrograde or stationary, it indicates major misfortune’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.16.10

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. 1.236


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stationem facio (Lemma #1163). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stationem facio (Lemma #1163). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). stationem facio (Lemma #1163). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) stationem facio (Lemma #1163), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1163,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {stationem facio ({Lemma} #1163)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1163/},
}