dorsum aquarii

Latin · noun
variant aquarii dorsum
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-06-10
Meanings
Literal translation
back of the waterbearer
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. the back of the Waterbearer

1.a the back of the Waterbearer animal part

6°–7° Aquarius

VI. et VII. in dorso

‘[the degrees] 6 and 7 are in the back [of Aquarius]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.11

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. (2024). dorsum aquarii (Lemma #1671). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dorsum aquarii (Lemma #1671). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dorsum aquarii (Lemma #1671). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) dorsum aquarii (Lemma #1671), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1671,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {dorsum aquarii ({Lemma} #1671)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1671/},
}