pedes sinistri cancri

Latin · noun
variants cancri pedes sinistri , sinistri pedes cancri
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
left feet of the crab
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 18 ›

1. the left legs of the Crab

1.a the left legs of the Crab animal part

26°–27° Cancer

septem autem sequentes in dextris Cancri pedibus collocantur, XXVI. autem et XXVII. in sinistris Cancri sunt pedibus

‘the seven following degrees however are located in the right legs of the Crab, but [the degrees] 26 and 27 are in the left legs 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). pedes sinistri cancri (Lemma #1597). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes sinistri cancri (Lemma #1597). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes sinistri cancri (Lemma #1597). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pedes sinistri cancri (Lemma #1597), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1597,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pedes sinistri cancri ({Lemma} #1597)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1597/},
}