〈ἡ κατὰ μῆκος κίνησις〉 hē kata mēkos kinēsis ‘longitudinal motion’
〈πλάτος〉 platos ‘latitude’
〈KI〉 qaqqaru ‘position’
〈E₂〉 bītu ‘longitude’
〈longitudo〉 ‘length’
μῆκος
mēkos
Greek noun
Last edited: 2025-09-09| Primary meaning | longitude |
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| Literal translation | length |
| Variants | μῆκος mēkos |
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longitude astronomical term, astronomical quantity, spatial concept
Στίλβων ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμο[ῦ] ἀστ[ήρ, ὁ] τὴ[ν] ζώ- νην τοῦ ἀέρος λελογχώς εὑρέθη [τὴ]ν κα- τὰ μῆκος κείνησιν ποιούμενος ἐ[ν] ζῳδίῳ [...] Αἰγόκερῳ
‘Stilbon, the star of Mercury, which has been allotted the belt of the air, has been found making its longitudinal motion in the [...] sign Capricorn’
right ascension spatial concept, astronomical term
Ὁ Στέφανος ἐν τῷ βορείῳ ἡμισφαιρίῳ κείμενος κατὰ μῆκος μὲν ἐπέχει μο θʹ καὶ δʹʹ ἀπὸ τῆς αʹ μο τοῦ Σκορπίου ἕως ιʹ <καὶ> δʹʹ μο τοῦ αὐτοῦ ζῳδίου. Κατὰ πλάτος δ’ ἐπέχει μο ϛʹ 𐅵 καὶ δʹ ἀπὸ μθʹ μο ἀπὸ τοῦ βορείου πόλου ἕως μο νεʹ 𐅵 καὶ δʹ.
‘Corona Borealis, lying in the northern hemisphere, as for length spans 9 deg and ¼ from the 1st deg of Scorpio until 10 <and> ¼ deg of the same zodiac sign. And as for breadth, it spans 6, ½ and ¼ deg from 49 deg from the North Pole until 55, ½ and ¼ deg.’
APA (7th)
Peeters, T., & Meinhardt, K. (2025). μῆκος (Lemma #2639). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T., & Meinhardt, K. (2025). μῆκος (Lemma #2639). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T., & Meinhardt, K. (2025). μῆκος (Lemma #2639). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/
Harvard
Peeters, T. and Meinhardt, K. (2025) μῆκος (Lemma #2639), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2639,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas and Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2025},
title = {μῆκος ({Lemma} #2639)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2639/},
}