mensis

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
month
Categories
unit of time
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. month

1.a month unit of time

Si Saturnus temporum dominus effectus Marti deputaverit tempora, deputat quidem [et] ex decennio suo menses XV.

‘If Saturn becomes the time-lord and allots its time to Mars, he allots 15 months of his ten-year period’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.33.5

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. 2.191

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mensis (Lemma #1401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mensis (Lemma #1401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mensis (Lemma #1401). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) mensis (Lemma #1401), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1401,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mensis ({Lemma} #1401)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1401/},
}