locus mortis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning place of death
Literal translation place of death
Variants
locus mortis
mortis locus
Edited by
place of death astrological place

8th astrological place

mortis in octavo

‘the [place] of death [is] in the eighth [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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus mortis (Lemma #983). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus mortis (Lemma #983). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus mortis (Lemma #983). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus mortis (Lemma #983), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac983,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus mortis ({Lemma} #983)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/983/},
}