pars posterior

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning earlier degree
Literal translation later parts
Variants
pars posterior
posterior pars
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earlier degree mathematical quantity

of a sign

Si vero in uno <signo> fuerint constituti, ab eo inchoans * * * usque ad alium veneris, qui in eodem signo [qui] in posterioribus partibus fuerit inventus.

‘If they are in the same sign, begin from the one that is in the earlier part of the sign until you come to another one’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.35

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. 2.184


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars posterior (Lemma #1377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars posterior (Lemma #1377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars posterior (Lemma #1377). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pars posterior (Lemma #1377), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1377,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pars posterior ({Lemma} #1377)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1377/},
}