ason

Latin · noun

variant asou

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-10-07

Meanings

1. 13°–20° Taurus

1.a 13°–20° Taurus decan, part of zodiac sign, irregular zodiacal decan

In Tauri signo quae sint partes plenae, quae vacuae, hoc demonstratur exemplo. Sunt autem in Tauro plenae partes XX, vacuae partes X. I locus partes III vacuus II locus partes VII Suo [idest asicat] III locus partes II vacuus IV locus partes VIII Aryo [idest ason/asou] V locus partes V vacuus VI locus partes V Romanae [idest aarfi/arfa]

‘In the sign of Taurus, some degrees are full, some are empty. This will be shown by example. But in Taurus there are 20° full and 10° empty. 1. 3° empty 2. 7° Suo [i.e. Asicat] 3. 2° empty 4. 8° Aryo [i.e. Ason/Asou] 5. 5° empty 6. 5° Romanae [i.e. Aarfi/Arfa]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.22.9

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. 1.267

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). ason (Lemma #1189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). ason (Lemma #1189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). ason (Lemma #1189). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/

Harvard

Meinhardt, K. (2025) ason (Lemma #1189), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1189,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ason ({Lemma} #1189)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1189/},
}