dorsum capricorni

Latin · noun
variant capricorni dorsum
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
back of the goat-horned
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. the back of Capricorn

1.a the back of Capricorn animal part

19°–20° Capricorn

duae quae has sequuntur in dorso

‘the two [degrees] which follow them are in the back [of Capricorn]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.10

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. 2.292

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dorsum capricorni (Lemma #1662). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dorsum capricorni (Lemma #1662). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dorsum capricorni (Lemma #1662). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) dorsum capricorni (Lemma #1662), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1662,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {dorsum capricorni ({Lemma} #1662)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1662/},
}