τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον

tēs en tōi stēthei nepheloeidous sustrophēs kaloumenēs Phatnēs to meson
Greek · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-28
Meanings
Literal translation
The middle of the nebulous mass in the chest, called Praesepe
Categories
star

1. NGC 2632 M44

1.a NGC 2632 M44 star

τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον

‘The middle of the nebulous mass in the chest, called Praesepe [NGC 2632 M44]’

— Ptolemy, Almagest 7

Genre: astronomical treatise Date: 2nd century CE

Ptolemy. 1903. Claudii Ptolemaei opera quae exstant omnia volumen I, Syntaxis Mathematica Pars II, Libros VII-XIII continens, ed. J.L. Heiberg. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. 84–129

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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον (Lemma #5725). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5725/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον (Lemma #5725). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5725/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον (Lemma #5725), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5725/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5725,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῆς ἐν τῷ στήθει νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένης Φάτνης τὸ μέσον ({Lemma} #5725)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5725/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5725/},
}