horoscopo

Latin verb
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning to be on the ascendant
Literal translation to be on the ascendant
Variants
horoscopo
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to be on the ascendant astrological concept

Si [...] horoscopante Marte Venus cum Mercurio in occasu fuerit constituta [...]

‘If Venus and Mars are located on the descendant while Mars is on the ascendant [...]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.31.17

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. 2.153


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). horoscopo (Lemma #1358). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). horoscopo (Lemma #1358). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). horoscopo (Lemma #1358). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) horoscopo (Lemma #1358), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1358,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {horoscopo ({Lemma} #1358)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1358/},
}