excessus

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
departure
Categories
planetary motion
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. departure

1.a departure planetary motion

of a planet from a sign/aspect

[...] quotienscunque Iuppiter post excessum Saturni ad oportuna geniturae venerit loca.

‘[...] whenever Jupiter comes to the suitable places of the nativity after the departure of Saturn’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 5.4.17

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. 2.54-55

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). excessus (Lemma #1721). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). excessus (Lemma #1721). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). excessus (Lemma #1721). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) excessus (Lemma #1721), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1721,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {excessus ({Lemma} #1721)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1721/},
}