venter gemini

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the belly of the Twin
Literal translation belly of the twin
Variants
venter gemini
gemini venter
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the belly of the southern Twin animal part

24°–26° Gemini

sub ventre vero XXIV. XXV. et XXVI.

‘under the belly [of the southern twin are counted the degrees] 24 and 25 and 26’

— 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. (2023). venter gemini (Lemma #1585). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). venter gemini (Lemma #1585). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). venter gemini (Lemma #1585). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) venter gemini (Lemma #1585), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1585,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {venter gemini ({Lemma} #1585)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1585/},
}