deus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-06-04
Primary meaning place of the god
Literal translation god
Variants
deus
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place of the god astrological place

9th astrological place

Deus vero illud signum dicitur quod contra hoc signum in diametro fuerit constitutum, id est IX. ab horoscopo signum

‘Deus is the name of the place which is diametrically opposite this place, that is the ninth 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

tutelary deity astrological concept

deity associated with an astrological place

nunc satis est caeli partes titulosque notasse effectusque loci per se cuiusque deosque.

‘nunc satis est caeli partes titulosque notasse effectusque loci per se cuiusque deosque.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.966 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 2.158-159

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deus (Lemma #998). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deus (Lemma #998). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). deus (Lemma #998). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) deus (Lemma #998), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac998,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {deus ({Lemma} #998)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/998/},
}