locus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-02-05
Primary meaning place
Literal translation place
Variants
locus
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place astrological place

partiliter ostendemus rationem, qua possint loca singula secretis inquisitionibus colligi

‘we shall show in detail the way in which the individual places may be exactly located’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.14.1

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. 1.57

position planetary position

Atqui, quo solet, quaeque [stellae] invenitur loco et magnitudo sua singulis constat;

‘Still, each star is found in its usual place and its size remains constant.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.1.10

Genre: philosophy
Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1-3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 18-21

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). locus (Lemma #972). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). locus (Lemma #972). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). locus (Lemma #972). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) locus (Lemma #972), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac972,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {locus ({Lemma} #972)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/972/},
}