cauda capricorni

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning the tail of Capricorn
Literal translation tail of the goat-horned
Variants
cauda capricorni
capricorni cauda
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the tail of Capricorn animal part

28°–30° Capricorn

tres posteriores per ordinem is collocantur in cauda

‘the three latter [degrees] in order are located in the tail [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


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda capricorni (Lemma #1665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda capricorni (Lemma #1665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cauda capricorni (Lemma #1665). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cauda capricorni (Lemma #1665), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1665,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cauda capricorni ({Lemma} #1665)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1665/},
}