locus amicorum

Latin · noun
variant amicorum locus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
place of friends
Categories
astrological lot

1. lot of friends

1.a lot of friends astrological lot

Si amicorum locum partili volueris ratione colligere, per diem quidem a Iove ad Mercurium conputabis

‘If you want to find the lot of friends by degree, you will count by day from Jupiter to Mercury’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.55

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 amicorum (Lemma #1396). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus amicorum (Lemma #1396). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus amicorum (Lemma #1396). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus amicorum (Lemma #1396), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1396,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus amicorum ({Lemma} #1396)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/},
}