testimonium commodo

Latin · verb
variant commodo testimonium
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
to put testimony in order
Categories
astrological concept
Related Lemmata 18 ›

1. to be in favorable aspect

1.a to be in favorable aspect astrological concept

Quodsi sic malivolis sicut diximus constitutis horoscopo Venus aut luppiter testimonium conmodaverint, expositus colligetur et alienae misericordiae praesidio nutrietur.

‘If as we said Venus and Jupiter aspect the malefic planets on the ascendant favorably, the exposed infant will be picked up and nourished by a stranger’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.29.6

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. 2.134

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). testimonium commodo (Lemma #1347). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). testimonium commodo (Lemma #1347). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). testimonium commodo (Lemma #1347). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) testimonium commodo (Lemma #1347), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1347,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {testimonium commodo ({Lemma} #1347)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1347/},
}