κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν
kata antisuzugian

Greek adverb

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning in syzygy
Literal translation opposite to yoked together
Variants
κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν kata antisuzugian hapax legomenon
Edited by
in syzygy astrological concept, aspect

literally “in antisyzygy”

Τῆς δὲ πρὸς ἄλληλα τάξεως καὶ θέσεως τῶν ιβʹ ζῳδίων διαφοραί εἰσι τέσσαρες. Ἃ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν λέγεται κατὰ διάμετρον, ἃ δὲ κατὰ τρίγωνον, ἃ δὲ κατὰ τετράγωνον, ἃ δὲ κατὰ συζυγίαν, ὑπό τινων δὲ ἀντισυζυγίαν.

‘Of the arrangement in comparison with each other and position of the 12 zodiac signs, there are four distinctions. One of them is called “in opposition”, another one “in trine”, another one “in quartile” and another one “in syzygy”, but according to some “(in) antisyzygy”.’

— Geminus 2.1

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 9-10

It is suggested by Evans and Berggren (2006), 125 + 257-258, to read ἀντισυζυγίαν as ἀντισκίαν instead. (Evans, J. and Berggren, J.L. 2006. Geminos’s Introduction to the Phenomena: a translation and study of a Hellenistic survey of astronomy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.)
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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν (Lemma #2779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν (Lemma #2779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν (Lemma #2779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν (Lemma #2779), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2779,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {κατὰ ἀντισυζυγίαν ({Lemma} #2779)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2779/},
}