〈Χηλαί〉 Chēlai ‘Libra’
〈—〉 ỉḫy.t ‘Libra’
〈libra〉 ‘Libra’
〈trigonum saturni〉 ‘Saturn's triangle’
〈מוזניא〉 mwznyʾ ‘Libra’
〈מֹאזְנַיִם〉 mōʾznayim ‘Libra’
〈iugum〉 ‘Libra’
〈तुला〉 tulā ‘Libra’
Ζυγός
Zugos
Greek noun
Last edited: 2025-02-05| Primary meaning | Libra |
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| Literal translation | yoke |
| Variants | Ζυγός Zugos Ζυγόν Zugon |
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Libra zodiac sign
συνανατέλλει μὲν αὐτῷ ὁ ζῳδιακὸς ἀπὸ γʹ καὶ κʹ μοίρας τοῦ Σκορπίου ἕως Τοξότου μοίρας αʹ καὶ κʹ· μεσουρανεῖ δὲ ἀπὸ Παρθένου γʹ ἕως Ζυγοῦ ιʹ
‘There rises with it (sc. the Beast, i.e. Lupus) the zodiac from 23 degrees of Scorpio up to 21 degrees of Sagittarius, and it culminates (lit. is in midheaven) from 3 of Virgo until 10 of Libra’
Ἔστι δὲ καὶ τὰ ιβʹ ζῴδια τάδε· Κριός, Ταῦρος, Δίδυμοι, Καρκίνος, Λέων, Παρθένος, Ζυγός, Σκορπίος, Τοξότης, Αἰγόκερως, Ὑδροχόος, Ἰχθύες.
‘And the 12 zodiac signs are these: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.’
ὅ τε μέγας ἡγεμὼν ἡμέρας ἥλιος διττὰς καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἀποτελῶν ἰσημερίας, ἔαρι καὶ μετοπώρῳ, τὴν μὲν ἐαρινὴν ἐν κριῷ, τὴν δὲ μετοπωρινὴν ἐν Ζυγῷ, ἐναργεστάτην παρέχεται πίστιν τοῦ περὶ τὴν ἑβδόμην θεοπρεποῦς· ἑκατέρα γὰρ τῶν ἰσημεριῶν ἑβδόμῳ γίνεται μηνί, καθ’ ἃς καὶ ἑορτάζειν διείρηται νόμῳ τὰς μεγίστας καὶ δημοτελεστάτας ἑορτάς
‘The Sun also, the great leader of day, by effecting twin equinoxes each year, in spring and autumn, the spring one in Aries and the autumn one in Libra, furnishes a very clear confirmation of the godly quality of the hebdomad: for each of the equinoxes occurs in a seventh month, and on them (sc. the equinoxes) it has been determined in the Law to celebrate the greatest and most sovereign festivals’
Ζυγὸς οἶκος Ἀφροδίτης, ἀρρενικόν, τροπικόν, ἀνθρωποειδές, ἀνωφερές, ἀερῶδες, θηλυνόμενον, φωνῆεν, ἀγαθόν, εὐμετάβολον, ὑπαρχόντων μειωτικόν, ὑπόγειον κόσμου, δημόσιον, ἐκλειπτικόν, προεστὸς καρπῶν, οἰνικῶν, ἐλαϊκῶν, μυρεψικῶν, σταθμῶν, μέτρων, ἐργαστηριακῶν.
‘Libra is a house of Venus, a masculine (sign), tropic, humanoid, ascending, of air, effeminate, vocal, good, variable, causing goods to decrease, the immum caelum of the cosmos, of the (common) people, ecliptic, presiding over crops, wine-, olive-cultivation, perfumery (or, aromatics-cultivation), weights, measures, working-trades.’
Libra constellation
yoke literal translation
balance-beam literal translation
APA (7th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ζυγός (Lemma #111). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ζυγός (Lemma #111). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ζυγός (Lemma #111). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/
Harvard
Peeters, T. and Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) Ζυγός (Lemma #111), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac111,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas and Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
year = {2025},
title = {Ζυγός ({Lemma} #111)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/111/},
}