pedes sinistri scorpii

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

1. the left feet of the Scorpion

1.a the left feet of the Scorpion animal part

23°–25° 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 sinistri scorpii (Lemma #1640). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes sinistri scorpii (Lemma #1640). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pedes sinistri scorpii (Lemma #1640). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pedes sinistri scorpii (Lemma #1640), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1640,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pedes sinistri scorpii ({Lemma} #1640)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1640/},
}