pleiades

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning Pleiades
Literal translation Pleiades
Variants
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Pleiades constellation

Si <Venus in Tauro fuerit> constituta, et eas Tauri partes teneat, in quibus sunt Pleiades positae [...]

‘If Venus is in Taurus and occupies those degrees of Taurus in which the Pleiades are located [...]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.31.60

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. 2.164

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pleiades (Lemma #1362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pleiades (Lemma #1362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pleiades (Lemma #1362). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pleiades (Lemma #1362), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1362,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pleiades ({Lemma} #1362)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1362/},
}