semen

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-05-11
Primary meaning offspring
Literal translation seed
Variants
semen
Edited by
offspring astrological concept

influenced by a zodiac sign

in Cancro genitos Capricorni semina laedunt et Librae partus et quos dat Virginis astrum quique sub aversi numerantur sidere Tauri.

‘The seed of Capricorn vexes those begotten under the Crab, and so do the children of the Balance, those produced by the Virgin’s sign, and those that are mustered under the constellation of the Bull averse.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.547 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 126-127

small point of light celestial object

tum conferta licet caeli fulgentia templa cernere seminibus minimis totumque micare stipatum stellis mundum

‘Then may one see heaven’s shining temples teeming with minute points of light and the whole firmament sparkle with dense array of stars’

— Manilius, Astronomica 5.726 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 360-361

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). semen (Lemma #2130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). semen (Lemma #2130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). semen (Lemma #2130). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) semen (Lemma #2130), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2130,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {semen ({Lemma} #2130)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2130/},
}