praesum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-15
Primary meaning to be located
Literal translation to be present
Variants
praesum
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In parte XII. Geminorum quicumque habuerit horoscopum, Marte praesente, punctu teli morietur [...]

‘He who has the ascendant at 12° Gemini with Mars present will die by the tip of a spear [...]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.21.5

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. 5.324

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). praesum (Lemma #1500). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). praesum (Lemma #1500). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). praesum (Lemma #1500). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) praesum (Lemma #1500), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/ (Accessed: June 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1500,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-06-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {praesum ({Lemma} #1500)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1500/},
}