mesuranima

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2024-12-11
Primary meaning midheaven
Variants
mesuranima
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upper midheaven astrological place

10th astrological place

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


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mesuranima (Lemma #989). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mesuranima (Lemma #989). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mesuranima (Lemma #989). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) mesuranima (Lemma #989), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac989,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mesuranima ({Lemma} #989)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/989/},
}