inventus

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2023-12-12
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inventus
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Si Luna in MC. fuerit inventa, et in IMC. Venus constituta partili Lunam radiatione respiciat, ista coniunctio incestae cupiditatis ardore sorores fratribus iunget uxores.

‘If the Moon is located on the MC and Venus on the IC and it exactly aspects the Moon, this configuration will make sisters into wives by way of incestuous love’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.30.20

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. 2.145

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inventus (Lemma #1353). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inventus (Lemma #1353). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). inventus (Lemma #1353). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) inventus (Lemma #1353), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1353,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {inventus ({Lemma} #1353)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1353/},
}