Ὄνοι
Onoi

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-02-25
Primary meaning Asses (γ+δ Cancri)
Literal translation Asses
Variants
Ὄνοι Onoi
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Asses (γ+δ Cancri) part of constellation

Οἱ δὲ ἐν τῳ Καρκίνῳ νεφελοειδεῖ συστροφῇ ἐοικότες καλοῦνται Φάτνη· οἱ δὲ πλησίον αὐτῆς δύο ἀστέρες κείμενοι Ὄνοι προσαγορεύεται.

‘The ones (i.e. stars) in Cancer looking like a nebulous mass are named Manger; and the two stars lying close to it are called Asses.’

— Geminus 13.4

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 18


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). Ὄνοι (Lemma #2857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). Ὄνοι (Lemma #2857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). Ὄνοι (Lemma #2857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) Ὄνοι (Lemma #2857), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2857,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {Ὄνοι ({Lemma} #2857)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2857/},
}