virtus corporis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of bodily virtue
Literal translation virtue of the body
Variants
virtus corporis
corporis virtus
Edited by
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1390,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {virtus corporis ({Lemma} #1390)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1390/},
}