〈AN.UR₃〉 išid šamê ‘horizon’
ὁρίζων
horizōn
Greek noun
Last edited: 2025-02-03| Primary meaning | horizon |
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| 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; (...)’
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/},
}