fosforos

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Categories
planet
Related Lemmata 12 ›

1. Venus

1.a Venus planet

quae a nobis Venus, ab illis Fosforos vocatur

‘the one called Venus by us is Fosforos to them’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.2.2

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. 1.42

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). fosforos (Lemma #921). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). fosforos (Lemma #921). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). fosforos (Lemma #921). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) fosforos (Lemma #921), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac921,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {fosforos ({Lemma} #921)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/921/},
}