dea

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-09-19
Meanings
Literal translation
goddess
Categories
astrological place
Related Lemmata 5 ›

1. place of the goddess

1.a place of the goddess astrological place

3rd astrological place

Dea est tertius ab horoscopo locus, id est tertium ab horoscopo signum;

‘The Goddess is the third place from the ascendant, i. e. the third sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.2

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. 1.59

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) dea (Lemma #992), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac992,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {dea ({Lemma} #992)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/},
}