cursus directus

Latin · noun
variant directus cursus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
direct course
Categories
astronomical term
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. direct motion

1.a direct motion astronomical term

nunc directo cursu, nunc retrogrado, nunc stativa tarditate subsistunt et intentionem quaerentium ex ista cursus sui varietate confundunt

‘sometimes in directmotion, sometimes retrograde, sometimes sluggish (they always confuse the researcher by the variety of their courses)’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.4.11

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. 1.14

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cursus directus (Lemma #889). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cursus directus (Lemma #889). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). cursus directus (Lemma #889). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) cursus directus (Lemma #889), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac889,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {cursus directus ({Lemma} #889)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/889/},
}