cornua tauri

Latin · noun
variant tauri cornua
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
horns of the bull
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. the horns of the Bull

1.a the horns of the Bull animal part

1°–2° Taurus

I. et II. partes in Tauri cornibus sunt constitutae

‘the 1st and 2nd degree of Taurus are located in its horns’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.2

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). cornua tauri (Lemma #1557). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cornua tauri (Lemma #1557). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cornua tauri (Lemma #1557). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cornua tauri (Lemma #1557), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1557,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cornua tauri ({Lemma} #1557)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1557/},
}