cauda arietis

Latin · noun
variant arietis cauda
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
tail of the ram
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 6 ›

1. the tail of the Ram

1.a the tail of the Ram animal part

30° Aries

in cauda (habet) XXX. partem

‘[Aries] has the 30th degree in its tail’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.1

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. 2.288

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda arietis (Lemma #1556). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda arietis (Lemma #1556). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda arietis (Lemma #1556). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cauda arietis (Lemma #1556), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1556,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cauda arietis ({Lemma} #1556)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1556/},
}