os cervi

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the mouth of the Stag
Literal translation mouth of the stag
Variants
os cervi
cervi os
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the mouth of the Stag animal part

In ore Cervi quicumque habuerint horoscopum, erunt [...] biothanati.

‘Whoever has the ascendant in the mouth of the Stag will die a violent death.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.30.12

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. 2.356


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os cervi (Lemma #1536). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os cervi (Lemma #1536). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os cervi (Lemma #1536). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) os cervi (Lemma #1536), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1536,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {os cervi ({Lemma} #1536)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1536/},
}