error

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-06-10
Primary meaning wandering
Literal translation wandering
Variants
error
Edited by
wandering astronomical term

quinque stellarum sempiternus error

‘the eternal wandering of the five planets’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.0.5

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. 1.2

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). error (Lemma #825). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). error (Lemma #825). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). error (Lemma #825). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) error (Lemma #825), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac825,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {error ({Lemma} #825)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/825/},
}