oculi cancri

Latin · noun
variant cancri oculi
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-03
Meanings
Literal translation
eyes of the crab
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. the eyes of the Crab

1.a 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.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.22.1

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. 1.326

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’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.4

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. 2.289

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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/
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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1520,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {oculi cancri ({Lemma} #1520)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1520/},
}