occupo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning to be located
Literal translation to occupy
Variants
occupo
Edited by
to be located verb of position

Si vero Sole in masculino signo constituto renata Luna feminini generis occupaverit signum, faciet principales vel principes civitatum

‘If however the Sun is located in a male sign and the renewed moon occupies a female sign, it makes chiefs or magistrates of cities’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.25.5

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. 2.129

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occupo (Lemma #1338). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occupo (Lemma #1338). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occupo (Lemma #1338). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) occupo (Lemma #1338), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1338,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {occupo ({Lemma} #1338)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/},
}