piscis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning the Southern Fish
Literal translation fish
Variants
notius piscis
piscis notius
piscis
Edited by
the Southern Fish constellation

modern Piscis Austrinus

tum Notius Piscis venti de nomine dictus exsurgit de parte Noti.

‘Then rises the Southern Fish in the quarter of the wind after which it is named.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.438

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 38-40

At, cum se patrio producens aequore Piscis in caelumque ferens alienis finibus ibit, [...]

‘But when the Southern Fish rises into the heavens, leaving its native waters for a foreign element, [...]’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.394 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 332-333

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). piscis (Lemma #2021). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). piscis (Lemma #2021). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). piscis (Lemma #2021). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) piscis (Lemma #2021), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2021,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {piscis ({Lemma} #2021)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2021/},
}