nemesis

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of Nemesis
Literal translation Nemesis
Variants
nemesis
Edited by
lot of Nemesis astrological lot

Nemesis nocte a Fortuna ad Lunam

‘[The lot of] Nemesis [can be calculated by adding to the ascendant the amount of degrees] from the lot of fortune up to the Moon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.56

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). nemesis (Lemma #1397). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). nemesis (Lemma #1397). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). nemesis (Lemma #1397). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) nemesis (Lemma #1397), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1397,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {nemesis ({Lemma} #1397)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1397/},
}