facies tauri

Latin · noun
variant tauri facies
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-25
Meanings
Literal translation
face of the bull
Categories
animal part
part of zodiac sign
part of constellation
Related Lemmata 8 ›

1. the face of the Bull

1.a the face of the Bull animal part, part of zodiac sign, part of constellation

3°–5° Taurus

III. vero et IV. et V. in omni facie

‘the 3rd, 4th and 5th degrees are in the face [of Taurus]’

— 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. (2026). facies tauri (Lemma #1559). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). facies tauri (Lemma #1559). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). facies tauri (Lemma #1559). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) facies tauri (Lemma #1559), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1559,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {facies tauri ({Lemma} #1559)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1559/},
}