pes tertius scorpionis

Latin · noun
variant tertius pes scorpionis
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-03
Meanings
Literal translation
third foot
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 5 ›

1. third leg of Scorpio

1.a third leg of Scorpio animal part

Qui in tertio pede habuerint horoscopum, erunt hortulani.

‘Whoever has the ascendant in the third leg [of Scorpio] will be a gardener.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.26.9

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. 2.337

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pes tertius scorpionis (Lemma #1522). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pes tertius scorpionis (Lemma #1522). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pes tertius scorpionis (Lemma #1522). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) pes tertius scorpionis (Lemma #1522), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1522,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {pes tertius scorpionis ({Lemma} #1522)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1522/},
}