balteus signorum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning zodiac
Literal translation belt of signs
Variants
balteus signorum
signorum balteus
Edited by
zodiac astral concept, spatial concept

atque erit obliquo signorum balteus orbe qui transversus erat, statio quando illius una est, nostrae mutantur sedes.

‘and the baldric of signs which had just now moved from side to side across heaven will now move in an oblique orbit, since its location remains constant, whilst ours changes.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.334 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 188-189

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). balteus signorum (Lemma #2355). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). balteus signorum (Lemma #2355). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). balteus signorum (Lemma #2355). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) balteus signorum (Lemma #2355), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2355,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {balteus signorum ({Lemma} #2355)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2355/},
}