collum cancri

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the neck of the Crab
Literal translation neck of the crab
Variants
collum cancri
cancri collum
Edited by
the neck of the Crab animal part

3°–5° Cancer

III. et IV. et V. in collo

‘[the degrees] 3 and 4 and 5 [are located] in the neck [of the Crab]’

— 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. (2023). collum cancri (Lemma #1588). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). collum cancri (Lemma #1588). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). collum cancri (Lemma #1588). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) collum cancri (Lemma #1588), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1588,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {collum cancri ({Lemma} #1588)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1588/},
}