〈cancer〉 ‘Cancer’
oculi cancri
Latin noun
Last edited: 2024-06-03| Primary meaning | the eyes of the Crab |
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| Literal translation | eyes of the crab |
| Variants | oculi cancri cancri oculi |
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the eyes of the Crab animal part
8°–10° Cancer
Inter oculos Cancri quicumque habuerint horoscopum, orbi vel unoculi erunt.
‘Whoever has the ascendant between the eyes of Cancer will be bereft and/or one-eyed.’
in faucibus vero VI. et VII., tres vero sequentes in oculis invenimus. Hie nebulc Cancri est de qua frequenter diximus.
‘in the throat [of the Crab] are [the degrees] 6 and 7, the following three we find in the eyes [of the Crab]. Here is the nebula of the Crab which we have frequently spoken of’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). oculi cancri (Lemma #1520). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). oculi cancri (Lemma #1520). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). oculi cancri (Lemma #1520). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) oculi cancri (Lemma #1520), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1520,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {oculi cancri ({Lemma} #1520)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/},
}