pes tertius scorpionis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning third leg of Scorpio
Literal translation third foot
Variants
pes tertius scorpionis
tertius pes scorpionis
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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


Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1522,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}