cassiepia

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning Cassiopeia
Literal translation Cassiopeia
Variants
cassiepia
cassiope Manilius 5.504
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Cassiopeia constellation

In Aquarii parte XX. oritur Cassiepia.

‘At 20° Aquarius rises Cassiopeia.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.16.3

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. 2.311

At, cum Cassiope bis denis partibus actis aequorei iuvenis dextra de parte resurgit, [...]

‘When after the appearance of twenty degrees of the watery youth Cassiope a rises on his right, [...]’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.504 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 342-343

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cassiepia (Lemma #1492). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cassiepia (Lemma #1492). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cassiepia (Lemma #1492). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) cassiepia (Lemma #1492), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1492,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {cassiepia ({Lemma} #1492)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1492/},
}