genius

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2024-01-05
Primary meaning lot of daemon
Literal translation spirit
Variants
genius
Edited by
lot of the daemon astrological lot

basis nocte a fortuna ad genium.

‘[The lot of] basis [can be calculated by adding to the ascendant the amount of degrees] at night from the lot of fortune until the lot of the daemon’

— 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. (2024). genius (Lemma #1398). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1398/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). genius (Lemma #1398). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1398/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). genius (Lemma #1398). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1398/
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1398,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {genius ({Lemma} #1398)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1398/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1398/},
}