pedes extremi cancri

Latin · noun
variants cancri pedes extremi , extremi pedes cancri
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
outer legs of the Crab
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 18 ›

1. the outer legs of the Crab

1.a the outer legs of the Crab animal part

28°–29° Cancer

in extremis vero pedibus XXVIII. et XXIX. sunt,

‘in the outer(?) legs [of the Crab] are [the degrees] 28 and 29’

— 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 extremi cancri (Lemma #1598). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes extremi cancri (Lemma #1598). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes extremi cancri (Lemma #1598). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pedes extremi cancri (Lemma #1598), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1598,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pedes extremi cancri ({Lemma} #1598)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1598/},
}