pectus piscis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-06-10
Primary meaning the chest of the Fish
Literal translation chest of the fish
Variants
pectus piscis
piscis pectus
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the chest of the northern Fish animal part

20°–22° Pisces

tres vero sequentes in pectore

‘the three following [degrees] however are in the chest [of the northern 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. (2024). pectus piscis (Lemma #1685). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pectus piscis (Lemma #1685). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). pectus piscis (Lemma #1685). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) pectus piscis (Lemma #1685), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1685,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {pectus piscis ({Lemma} #1685)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1685/},
}