bootes

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-01

Meanings
Literal translation
ploughman
Categories
star or constellation
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. Bootes

1.a Bootes star or constellation

In Boote quicumque habuerint horoscopum, erunt divini astrologi artis Chaldaicae periti.

‘Whoever has the ascendant in Bootes will be godly astrologers, skilled in the Chaldean art.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.25.10

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. 2.335


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bootes (Lemma #1517). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bootes (Lemma #1517). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bootes (Lemma #1517). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) bootes (Lemma #1517), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1517,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bootes ({Lemma} #1517)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
}