substantia possessionum

Latin · noun
variant possessionum substantia
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
substance of possessions
Categories
astrological lot

1. lot of possessions

1.a lot of possessions astrological lot

Si possessionum substantiam partili volueris ratione colligere, a Mercurio semper conputabis ad Iovem, et tantundem ab horoscope

‘If you want to find the degree of the lot of possessions, you will always count from Mercury up until Jupiter, and [add] that amount [of degrees] to the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.52

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). substantia possessionum (Lemma #1391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). substantia possessionum (Lemma #1391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). substantia possessionum (Lemma #1391). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) substantia possessionum (Lemma #1391), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1391,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {substantia possessionum ({Lemma} #1391)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1391/},
}