locus spei

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning place of hope
Literal translation place of hope
Variants
spei locus
locus spei
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place of hope astrological place

2nd astrological place

spei vel pecuniae in secundo horoscopi signo

‘of Expectation of Inheritace and Wealth in the second sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.14.3

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. 1.58


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus spei (Lemma #976). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus spei (Lemma #976). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus spei (Lemma #976). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus spei (Lemma #976), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac976,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus spei ({Lemma} #976)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/976/},
}