occido

Latin · verb
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
to fall
Categories
astronomical event
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. to set

1.a to set astronomical event

Hae in vicinis signorum regionibus collocatae, cum XII signis oriuntur et cum ipsis occidunt rursus, inmutatum semper cursus sui ordinem reservantes.

‘These are located in the neighboring regions of the signs, rise with the twelve and set with them, keeping always an unchanging course.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.6.2

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. 2.295

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occido (Lemma #1460). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occido (Lemma #1460). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occido (Lemma #1460). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) occido (Lemma #1460), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1460,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {occido ({Lemma} #1460)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1460/},
}