caligo

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-10
Primary meaning fog
Literal translation fog
Variants
caligo
Edited by
fog noun

Sed tres posteriores partes Piscium quae inter Arietem sunt et Pisces, obscura caligo semper innubilat.

‘But the three last degrees of Pisces which are between Aries and Pisces are always obscured by fog.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.13

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. 2.293

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). caligo (Lemma #1456). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). caligo (Lemma #1456). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). caligo (Lemma #1456). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) caligo (Lemma #1456), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1456,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {caligo ({Lemma} #1456)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1456/},
}