facies sagittarii

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the face of the Archer
Literal translation face of the archer
Variants
facies sagittarii
sagittarii facies
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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


Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1643,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {facies sagittarii ({Lemma} #1643)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1643/},
}