locus matris

Latin · noun
variant matris locus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
place of the mother
Categories
astrological lot

1. lot of the mother

1.a lot of the mother astrological lot

Si matris locum partili volueris ratione colligere, et sit diurna genitura, a parte Veneris inchoans et per sequentia signa pergens, omnes partes usque ad Lunae conputes partem

‘If you want to exactly calculate the lot of the mother in a day-chart, count the degrees beginning with the degree of Venus going through the following signs up until the degree of the Moon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.21

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. 2.180

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus matris (Lemma #1369). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/
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Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus matris (Lemma #1369), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1369,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus matris ({Lemma} #1369)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1369/},
}