locus servorum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning lot of slaves
Literal translation place of slaves
Variants
locus servorum
servorum locus
Edited by
lot of slaves astrological lot

Si servorum locum partili volueris ratione colligere, a Mercurio semper conputabis Lunam, et tantundem ab horoscopo

‘If you want to find the lot of slaves by degree, you will always count from Mercury up to the Moon and [add] this amount to the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.57

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 servorum (Lemma #1399). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus servorum (Lemma #1399). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus servorum (Lemma #1399). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus servorum (Lemma #1399), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1399,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus servorum ({Lemma} #1399)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1399/},
}