teneo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-09-10
Primary meaning to be located
Literal translation to hold
Variants
teneo
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to be located verb of position

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

to belong to astrological concept

of zodiac signs to regions of earth

Hesperiam sua Libra tenet

‘Italy belongs to the Balance’

— Manilius, Astronomica 4.773

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 284-285

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). teneo (Lemma #1363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). teneo (Lemma #1363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). teneo (Lemma #1363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) teneo (Lemma #1363), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1363,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {teneo ({Lemma} #1363)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1363/},
}