pars fortunae

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of fortune
Literal translation part of fortune
Variants
pars fortunae
Edited by
lot of fortune astrological lot

Locum desideriorum si partiliter volueris invenire, in diurna quidem genitura a parte Daemonis usque ad partem Fortunae conputa

‘If you want to find the lot of longing by degree in a day chart, count from the lot of the spirit until the lot of fortune’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.45

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. 2.187

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars fortunae (Lemma #1376). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars fortunae (Lemma #1376). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars fortunae (Lemma #1376). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pars fortunae (Lemma #1376), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1376,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pars fortunae ({Lemma} #1376)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1376/},
}