caput cancri

Latin · noun
variant cancri caput
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-07-01
Meanings
Literal translation
head of the crab
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 11 ›

1. the head of the Crab

1.a the head of the Crab animal part

1°–2° Cancer

I. et II. partes Cancri sunt in capite collocatae

‘degrees 1 and 2 of Cancer are located in the head’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.4

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

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). caput cancri (Lemma #1587). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). caput cancri (Lemma #1587). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). caput cancri (Lemma #1587). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) caput cancri (Lemma #1587), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1587,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {caput cancri ({Lemma} #1587)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1587/},
}