locus patris

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of the father
Literal translation place of the father
Variants
locus patris
patris locus
Edited by
lot of the father astrological lot

Si locum patris partili volueris ratione colligere, et sit diurna genitura, conputes a parte Solis usque ad partem Saturni omnem partium numerum [...]

‘If you want to compute the lot of the father in a diurnal chart, count from the degree of the Sun until the degree of Saturn the number of all degrees’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.3

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. 2.175

See also

〈—〉 tny.t ỉt ‘part of the father’

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus patris (Lemma #1367). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus patris (Lemma #1367). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus patris (Lemma #1367). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus patris (Lemma #1367), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1367,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus patris ({Lemma} #1367)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/},
}