ἀθεώρητος
atheōrētos

Greek adjective

Last edited: 2025-03-24
Primary meaning invisible
Literal translation unobserved
Variants
ἀθεώρητος atheōrētos
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invisible term of visual perception

Διόπερ οὐδὲ ῥητέον αὐτὰς κυρίως ἐκλείψεις, ἀλλ’ ἐπιπροσθήσεις. Τοῦ μὲν γὰρ ἡλίου οὐδὲ ἕν μέρος οὐδέποτε ἐκλείψει· ἡμῖν δὲ ἀθεώρητος γίνεται διὰ τὴν ἐπιπρόσθησιν τῆς σελήνης.

‘And therefore, it should not be said that these [solar eclipses] are ‘failings’ in the proper sense, but rather ‘coverings’. For not one part of the Sun will ever ‘fail’: it becomes invisible to us due to the covering by the Moon.’

— Geminus 10.2

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 61


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἀθεώρητος (Lemma #2700). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἀθεώρητος (Lemma #2700). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). ἀθεώρητος (Lemma #2700). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) ἀθεώρητος (Lemma #2700), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2700,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ἀθεώρητος ({Lemma} #2700)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2700/},
}