os piscis

Latin · noun
variant piscis os
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-01-31
Meanings
Literal translation
mouth of the fish
Categories
animal part
Related Lemmata 7 ›

1. the mouth of the southern Fish

1.a the mouth of the southern Fish animal part

1°–2° Pisces

I. itaque et II. partes in australis Piscis ore collocantur

‘therefore degrees 1 and 2 are located in the mouth of the southern Fish’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.4.12

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. 2.293

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). os piscis (Lemma #1679). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). os piscis (Lemma #1679). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). os piscis (Lemma #1679). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) os piscis (Lemma #1679), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1679,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {os piscis ({Lemma} #1679)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/},
}