anatole

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-12-11
Meanings
Categories
astrological place
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1. ascendant

1.a ascendant astrological place

1st astrological house

in genituris cardines sunt quattuor, ortus occasus medium caelum immum caelum, quae loca a Graecis solent appellari his nominibus: anatole, dysis, mesuranima, ypogeon

‘In nativities there are four cardinal points, Rising, Setting, Midheaven, Lower Midheaven, which places are customarily given the following names by the Greeks: Rising (ἀνατολή), Setting (δύσις), Midheaven (μεσουράνημα), Below the Earth (ὑπόγειον).’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.15.1

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. 1.58

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). anatole (Lemma #987). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). anatole (Lemma #987). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). anatole (Lemma #987). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) anatole (Lemma #987), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac987,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {anatole ({Lemma} #987)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/987/},
}