dorsum leonis

Latin · noun
variant leonis dorsum
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
back of the lion
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. the back of the Lion

1.a the back of the Lion animal part

20°–22° Leo

XX. vero partes et XXI. et XXII. invenimus in dorso

‘the degrees 20 and 21 and 22 we find the back [of the Lion]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.5

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). dorsum leonis (Lemma #1608). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dorsum leonis (Lemma #1608). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dorsum leonis (Lemma #1608). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) dorsum leonis (Lemma #1608), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1608,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {dorsum leonis ({Lemma} #1608)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1608/},
}