locus amicorum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of friends
Literal translation place of friends
Variants
locus amicorum
amicorum locus
Edited by
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1396,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus amicorum ({Lemma} #1396)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1396/},
}