ὁρίζων
horizōn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning horizon
Literal translation horizon
Variants
ὁρίζων horizōn
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horizon astral concept

Τροπὴ δέ ἐστι χειμερινή, ὅταν ὁ ἥλιος πορρωτάτω ἡμῶν τῆς οἰκήσεως γένηται καὶ ταπεινότατον ὡς πρὸς τὸν ὁρίζοντα καὶ νοτιώτατον κύκλον γράψῃ καὶ μεγίστην πασῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ νύκτα ποιήσηται, ἐλαχίστην δὲ ἡμέραν· (...)

‘And it is winter solstice, when the sun arrives the furthest from our place of residence and describes a circle as low as possible in reference to the horizon and the most southerly, and makes the longest night of all of them in the year, but the shortest day; (...)’

— Geminus 1.12

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 4


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ὁρίζων (Lemma #1281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). ὁρίζων (Lemma #1281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ὁρίζων (Lemma #1281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) ὁρίζων (Lemma #1281), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1281,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁρίζων ({Lemma} #1281)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1281/},
}