pes sinister virginis

Latin · noun
variants sinister pes virginis , virginis sinister pes
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
left foot of the virgin
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 15 ›

1. the left foot of the Virgin

1.a the left foot of the Virgin animal part

26°–27° Virgo

XXVI. et XXVII. in sinistro collocantur pede

‘[the degrees] 26 and 27 are located in the left foot [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). pes sinister virginis (Lemma #1622). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pes sinister virginis (Lemma #1622). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pes sinister virginis (Lemma #1622). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pes sinister virginis (Lemma #1622), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1622,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pes sinister virginis ({Lemma} #1622)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1622/},
}