templum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-10-21
Primary meaning astrological place
Literal translation temple
Variants
templum
Edited by
astrological place astrological concept

chiefly Manilius

tali sub sorte notandae templorum tibi sunt vires: quae pervolat omnis astrorum series

‘This is the system by which you must mark the powers of the temples: through them revolves the entire procession of the zodiac’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.959 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 158-159

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). templum (Lemma #2228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). templum (Lemma #2228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). templum (Lemma #2228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) templum (Lemma #2228), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2228,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {templum ({Lemma} #2228)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2228/},
}