facies sagittarii

Latin · noun
variant sagittarii facies
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
face of the archer
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 9 ›

1. the face of the Archer

1.a the face of the Archer animal part

3–5° Sagittarius

tres vero sequentes per ordinem ponuntur in facie,

‘the three following [degrees] are in order placed in the face [of the Archer]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.9

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). facies sagittarii (Lemma #1643). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). facies sagittarii (Lemma #1643). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). facies sagittarii (Lemma #1643). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) facies sagittarii (Lemma #1643), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1643,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {facies sagittarii ({Lemma} #1643)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/},
}