virtus corporis

Latin · noun
variant corporis virtus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
virtue of the body
Categories
astrological lot

1. lot of bodily virtue

1.a lot of bodily virtue astrological lot

Si virtutem corporis partiliter volueris invenire, a Luna conputabis ad Iovem, et tantundem ab horoscope

‘If you want to find the degree of the lot of bodily virtue, you will count from the Moon until Jupiter, and [add] that [amount of degrees] to the horoscope’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.51

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. 2.188

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). virtus corporis (Lemma #1390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). virtus corporis (Lemma #1390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). virtus corporis (Lemma #1390). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) virtus corporis (Lemma #1390), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1390,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {virtus corporis ({Lemma} #1390)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/},
}