locus actus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning place of occupations
Literal translation place of action
Variants
locus actus
actus locus
Edited by
place of occupations astrological place

Sed haec fortius convalescunt, si locus Fortunae et locus actus in cardine inventus praecedenti stellarum societati iungatur.

‘But these indications are stronger if the Part of Fortune and the house of occupations are found on angles and joined to Mars, Mercury, and Venus.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 7.26.4

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. 2.277

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus actus (Lemma #1435). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus actus (Lemma #1435). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus actus (Lemma #1435). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus actus (Lemma #1435), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1435,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus actus ({Lemma} #1435)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1435/},
}