occupo

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
to occupy
Categories
position
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. to be located

1.a to be located 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

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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1338,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {occupo ({Lemma} #1338)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1338/},
}