locus necessitatis

Latin · noun
variant necessitatis locus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
place of necessity
Categories
astrological lot
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1. lot of necessity

1.a lot of necessity astrological lot

Si necessitatis locum partili volueris invenire ratione, in diurna quidem gentura a Fortuna conputabis ad Daemonem

‘If you want to find the degree of the lot of necessity in a day-chart count from the lot of fortune to the lot of the daemon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.46

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). locus necessitatis (Lemma #1385). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus necessitatis (Lemma #1385). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus necessitatis (Lemma #1385). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus necessitatis (Lemma #1385), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1385,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus necessitatis ({Lemma} #1385)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/},
}