septentriones

Latin · noun
variant septentrio
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
the seven plough-oxen
Categories
constellation
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1. Ursa Major

1.a Ursa Major constellation

cur septentriones numquam caeli rotata vertigo ad occidentem transferat orientique restituat

‘why the spinning of the sky never carries Ursa Major over to the west and back to the east’

— 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. 1.3

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). septentriones (Lemma #852). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). septentriones (Lemma #852). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). septentriones (Lemma #852). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) septentriones (Lemma #852), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac852,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {septentriones ({Lemma} #852)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/852/},
}