pes quartus scorpionis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning the fourth leg of Scorpio
Literal translation fourth foot
Variants
pes quartus scorpionis
quartus pes scorpionis
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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


Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1524,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}