collum piscis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning the neck of the Fish
Literal translation neck of the fish
Variants
collum piscis
piscis collum
Edited by
the neck of the southern Fish animal part

8°–10° Pisces

tres quae sequuntur in ordine collocantur in collo

‘the three [degrees] which follow in order are located in the neck [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). collum piscis (Lemma #1682). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). collum piscis (Lemma #1682). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). collum piscis (Lemma #1682). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) collum piscis (Lemma #1682), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1682,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {collum piscis ({Lemma} #1682)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1682/},
}