dorsum sagittarii

Latin · noun
variant sagittarii dorsum
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-03
Meanings
Literal translation
back of the archer
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. the back of the Archer

1.a the back of the Archer animal part

18°–20° Sagittarius

et III aliae collocantur in dorso

‘and the 3 other [following degrees] are located in the back [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. (2024). dorsum sagittarii (Lemma #1649). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dorsum sagittarii (Lemma #1649). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dorsum sagittarii (Lemma #1649). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) dorsum sagittarii (Lemma #1649), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1649,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {dorsum sagittarii ({Lemma} #1649)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1649/},
}