cor librae

Latin · noun
variant librae cor
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
heart of the Scales
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 6 ›

1. the heart of the Scales

1.a the heart of the Scales animal part

16°–17° Libra

XVI. et XVII. in corde Librae

‘[degrees] 16 and 17 are in the heart of the Scales’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.7

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. 2.290

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cor librae (Lemma #1592). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cor librae (Lemma #1592). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cor librae (Lemma #1592). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cor librae (Lemma #1592), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1592,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cor librae ({Lemma} #1592)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1592/},
}