κόλλησις
kollēsis

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
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attachment astral concept

a more specific type of conjunction

If (the Moon) had made contact with more (planets), that is, in terms of attachment or also aspect, he would also have had more brothers.

‘εἰ δὲ καὶ πλείοσι τὴν συναφὴν ἐπεποίητο ἤτοι κατὰ κόλλησιν ἢ καὶ ἐπιμαρτύρησιν, καὶ πλείονας ἂν ἀδελφοὺς εἶχεν’

— Hephaestion 2.18.42

Genre: astrological treatise
Date: 5th century CE

κόλλησίς ἐστιν ὅταν ἀστὴρ ἀστέρι προσέρχηται ὁ ταχύτερος τῷ βραδυτέρῳ οὐ πλέον ἀπέχων μοιρῶν γʹ·

‘Attachment is whenever a planet approaches a planet, the faster to the slower, no more distant than 3 degrees.’

— Antiochus, Fragments p. 114

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Athens
Date: 1st cent. BCE/1st cent. CE

CCAG VIII.3


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APA (7th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). κόλλησις (Lemma #1567). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). κόλλησις (Lemma #1567). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/

MLA (9th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). κόλλησις (Lemma #1567). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/

Harvard
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) κόλλησις (Lemma #1567), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1567,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2025},
	title = {κόλλησις ({Lemma} #1567)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1567/},
}