os capricorni

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the mouth of Capricorn
Literal translation mouth of the goat-horned
Variants
os capricorni
capricorni os
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the mouth of Capricorn animal part

8°–10° Capricorn

tres sequentes per ordinem in ore Capricorni constituuntur.

‘the three following [degrees] are located in order in the mouth of Capricorn’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.10

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. 2.292


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os capricorni (Lemma #1590). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os capricorni (Lemma #1590). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os capricorni (Lemma #1590). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) os capricorni (Lemma #1590), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1590,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {os capricorni ({Lemma} #1590)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1590/},
}