The concept of "overcoming" in Hellenistic astrology includes a particular term for superior squares, epidekateia, though complicated, Brennan describes (p. 314), by carrying a double meaning, the second connoting "tithing" or taking a tenth of something from the other planet. Another scholar, he continues, refers to this condition as "decimation," which "strictly speaking means to remove or kill a tenth of something from a practice employed in the Roman army from punishing soldiers," which he goes on to discuss as problematic because benefics can also be in this configuration with "quite positive" interpretation implied.
A nativity with upon-the-tenth configuration:
- Jupiter (domicile lord of hour-marker) placed in fifth place (children)
- Jupiter (tin) (fifth) in domicile of Aries ruled by Mars (soldiers)
- Jupiter in superior square to Venus (precious stones) in eighth (death)