locus accusationis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of indictment
Literal translation place of accusation
Variants
locus accusationis
accusationis locus
Edited by
lot of indictment astrological lot

Si accusationis locum partili volueris ratione colligere, a Marte semper conputabis ad Saturnum

‘If you want to find the degree of the lot of indictment, you will always count from Mars until Saturn’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.53

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. 2.189

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus accusationis (Lemma #1392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus accusationis (Lemma #1392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus accusationis (Lemma #1392). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus accusationis (Lemma #1392), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1392,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus accusationis ({Lemma} #1392)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1392/},
}