os sagittarii

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the mouth of the Archer
Literal translation mouth of the archer
Variants
os sagittarii
sagittarii os
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the mouth of the Archer animal part

6°–7° Sagittarius

duae vero quae praecedentes partes sequuntur, in ore Sagittarii collocantur,

‘the two degrees however which follow the preceding ones are located in the mouth 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). os sagittarii (Lemma #1644). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os sagittarii (Lemma #1644). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). os sagittarii (Lemma #1644). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) os sagittarii (Lemma #1644), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1644,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {os sagittarii ({Lemma} #1644)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1644/},
}