mamilla dextra virginis

Latin · noun
variants virginis mamilla dextra , dextra mamilla virginis
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
right breast of the virgin
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. the right breast of the Virgin

1.a the right breast of the Virgin animal part

16°–17° Virgo

XVI. vero et XVII. in dextra mamilla

‘[the degrees] 16 and 17 are in the right breast [of the Virgin]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.6

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). mamilla dextra virginis (Lemma #1620). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mamilla dextra virginis (Lemma #1620). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mamilla dextra virginis (Lemma #1620). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) mamilla dextra virginis (Lemma #1620), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1620,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mamilla dextra virginis ({Lemma} #1620)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1620/},
}