cardo primus

Latin · noun
variant primus cardo
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
first hinge
Categories
astrological concept
spatial concept
Related Lemmata 4 ›

1. cardinal point

1.a cardinal point astrological concept, spatial concept

Inspice etiam hoc ipsum signum, utrum benivolae stellae sit an malivolae, et quatenus dominus ipsius signi in genitura sit collocatus, vel in quo signo vel in quibus finibus, et <an> in primis an in secundis cardinibus adsistat,

‘Also look at that sign itself, whether it houses a benefic or a malefic and how the ruler of this sign is located in the chart—in which sign and which terms—and whether he stands in cardinal or favorable place’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.31.5

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. 2.176

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APA (7th)
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Meinhardt, K. (2024). cardo primus (Lemma #1697). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1697/
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BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1697,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {cardo primus ({Lemma} #1697)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1697/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1697/},
}