Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος
Berenikēs Plokamos

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-07-14
Primary meaning Coma Berenices
Literal translation Lock of Berenikē
Variants
Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος Berenikēs Plokamos
Βερονίκης Πλόκαμος Beronikēs Plokamos
Βερηνίκης Πλόκαμος Berēnikēs Plokamos
Πλόκαμος Plokamos Hephaestion 1.4
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Coma Berenices constellation

not necessarily identical to the modern constellation

Βόρεια δέ ἐστιν, ὅσα τοῦ τῶν ζῳδίων κύκλου πρὸς ἄρκτους κεῖται. Ἔστι δὲ τάδε· ἡ Μεγάλη Ἄρκτος, ἡ Μικρά, Δράκων ὁ διὰ τῶν Ἄρκτων, Ἀρκτοφύλαξ, Στέφανος, Ἐνγόνασιν, Ὀφιοῦχος, Ὄφις, Λύρα, Ὄρνις, Ὀϊστός, Ἀετός, Δελφίς, Προτομὴ Ἵππου καθ’ Ἵππαρχον, Ἵππος, Κηφεύς, Κασσιέπεια, Ἀνδρομέδα, Περσεύς, Ἡνίοχος, Δελτωτὸν καὶ ὁ ὕστερον κατεστηριγμένος ὑπὸ Καλλιμάχου Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος.

‘Northern (constellations) there are as many as lie to the north of the zodiac. These are the following: the Great Bear, the Little (Bear), Dragon between the Bears, Bear Keeper, Crown, Kneeling Man, Ophiuchus, Serpent, Lyre, Bird, Arrow, Eagle, Dolphin, Forepart of a Horse according to Hipparchus, Horse, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Perseus, Charioteer, Triangle and the later by Callimachus established Lock of Berenikē.’

— Geminus 3.8

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 19

Some manuscripts have the variant Βερονίκης Πλόκαμος or Βερηνίκης Πλόκαμος.
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος (Lemma #2804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος (Lemma #2804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος (Lemma #2804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος (Lemma #2804), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2804,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος ({Lemma} #2804)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2804/},
}