cauda tauri

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

1. the tail of the Bull

1.a the tail of the Bull animal part

30° Taurus

in cauda vero sola pars XXX. reperitur.

‘in the tail [of Taurus] the 30th degree is located’

— 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). cauda tauri (Lemma #1577). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda tauri (Lemma #1577). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda tauri (Lemma #1577). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cauda tauri (Lemma #1577), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1577,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cauda tauri ({Lemma} #1577)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1577/},
}