facies gemini

Latin · noun

variant gemini facies

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-05-27

Meanings

1. the face of the northern Twin

2. the face of the southern Twin

Literal translation

face of the twin

1. the face of the northern Twin

1.a the face of the northern Twin animal part

3°–5° Gemini

III. vero et IV. et V. in eiusdem Gemini facie sunt

‘[the degrees] 3 and 4 and 5 however are in the face of that same [northern] twin’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.3

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

2. the face of the southern Twin

2.a the face of the southern Twin animal part

21°–23° Gemini

in facie vero XXI. et XXII. et XXIII.

‘in the face [of the southern twin are the degrees] 21 and 22 and 23’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.3

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. 2.289

Cite this entry

APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). facies gemini (Lemma #1580). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). facies gemini (Lemma #1580). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). facies gemini (Lemma #1580). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/

Harvard

Meinhardt, K. (2024) facies gemini (Lemma #1580), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1580,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {facies gemini ({Lemma} #1580)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1580/},
}