locus patris

Latin · noun
variant patris locus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
place of the father
Categories
astrological lot
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. lot of the father

1.a 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

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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1367,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus patris ({Lemma} #1367)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1367/},
}