locus fratrum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-10-27
Primary meaning place of brothers
Literal translation place of brothers
Variants
locus fratrum
fratrum locus
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place of brothers astrological house

3rd astrological place

fratrum in tertio

‘the [place] of the brothers [is] in the third [sign]’

— 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


lot of brothers astrological lot

Si locum fratrum partiliter volueris invenire, et sit diuma genitura, a parte Saturni inchoans usque ad partem conputa lovis [...]

‘If you want to find the exact degree of the lot of brothers in a day-chart, count from the degree of Saturn until the degree of Jupiter [...]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.23

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 2.181


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus fratrum (Lemma #978). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus fratrum (Lemma #978). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus fratrum (Lemma #978). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus fratrum (Lemma #978), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac978,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus fratrum ({Lemma} #978)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/978/},
}