locus necessitatis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of necessity
Literal translation place of necessity
Variants
locus necessitatis
necessitatis locus
Edited by
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1385,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus necessitatis ({Lemma} #1385)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1385/},
}