pedes dextri scorpii

Latin · noun
variant dextri pedes scorpii
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
right feet of the scorpion
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 16 ›

1. the right legs of the Scorpion

1.a the right legs of the Scorpion animal part

21°–22° Scorpio

in pedibus vero dextris duae sequentes ordinantur, in sinistris pedibus tres

‘in the right legs the following two [degrees] are counted, in the left legs [the following] three’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.8

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. 2.291

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes dextri scorpii (Lemma #1638). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes dextri scorpii (Lemma #1638). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes dextri scorpii (Lemma #1638). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pedes dextri scorpii (Lemma #1638), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1638,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pedes dextri scorpii ({Lemma} #1638)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1638/},
}