pes quartus scorpionis

Latin · noun
variant quartus pes scorpionis
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-03
Meanings
Literal translation
fourth foot
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 6 ›

1. the fourth leg of Scorpio

1.a the fourth leg of Scorpio animal part

Qui in quarto pede habuerint horoscopum, erunt cinaedi, mulieres vero prostituto pudore meretrices.

‘Whoever has the ascendant in the fourth leg [of Scorpio] will be homosexual, women however will be prostitutes.’

— 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 quartus scorpionis (Lemma #1524). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pes quartus scorpionis (Lemma #1524). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pes quartus scorpionis (Lemma #1524). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) pes quartus scorpionis (Lemma #1524), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1524,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {pes quartus scorpionis ({Lemma} #1524)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1524/},
}