bootes

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning Bootes
Literal translation ploughman
Variants
bootes
Edited by
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1517,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bootes ({Lemma} #1517)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1517/},
}