oriens

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning east
Literal translation rising
Variants
oriens
Edited by
east cardinal direction

cur non [...] ad occidentem transferat orientique restituat

‘why it does not carry [...] over to the west and return it 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). oriens (Lemma #855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). oriens (Lemma #855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). oriens (Lemma #855). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) oriens (Lemma #855), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac855,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {oriens ({Lemma} #855)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/855/},
}