πρόδυσις
produsis

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-02-03
Primary meaning leading setting
Literal translation setting
Variants
πρόδυσις produsis
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leading setting astronomical event

Ὅταν δὲ πλεῖον γένηται διάστημα τῶν υʹ σταδίων, προανατολαὶ καὶ προδύσεις γίνονται.

‘But when (the) interval becomes more than these 400 stadia, risings before other risings and settings before other settings happen.’

— Geminus 16.16

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 79


astrological place astrological concept

τὸ δὲ ἕκτον ἀπὸ ὡροσκόπου καλεῖται Κακὴ Τύχη καὶ ποινὴ καὶ πρόδυσις καὶ ἀπόκλιμα φαῦλον

‘The sixth place from the Ascendant is called Bad Fortune and Punishment and Setting-in-advance and Ill Decline’

— Paul of Alexandria §24

p. 57 Boer


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). πρόδυσις (Lemma #459). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). πρόδυσις (Lemma #459). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T., & Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). πρόδυσις (Lemma #459). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/

Harvard
Peeters, T. and Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) πρόδυσις (Lemma #459), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac459,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas and Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2025},
	title = {πρόδυσις ({Lemma} #459)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/459/},
}