venter tauri

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-05-27
Primary meaning the belly of the Bull
Literal translation belly of the bull
Variants
venter tauri
tauri venter
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the belly of the Bull animal part

18°–20° Taurus

XVIII. vero et XIX. et XX. in ventre sunt

‘[degrees] 18 and 19 and 20 however are in the belly [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


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). venter tauri (Lemma #1572). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). venter tauri (Lemma #1572). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). venter tauri (Lemma #1572). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) venter tauri (Lemma #1572), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1572,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {venter tauri ({Lemma} #1572)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1572/},
}