bootes

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

Meanings
Literal translation
ploughman
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 3

1. Bootes

1.a Bootes 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: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1517,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bootes ({Lemma} #1517)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
}