os piscis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning the mouth of the Fish
Literal translation mouth of the fish
Variants
os piscis
piscis os
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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


Cite this entry
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/

Chicago (Author-Date)
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/

Harvard
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1679,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {os piscis ({Lemma} #1679)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1679/},
}