τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου

tou boreiou keratos ho autos tōi epi tou dexiou podos tou Hēniochou
Greek · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-28
Meanings
Literal translation
The star on the tip of the northern horn, which is the same as the one on the right foot of Auriga [230 Aur 11]
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τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου

‘The star on the tip of the northern horn, which is the same as the one on the right foot of Auriga [230 Aur 11] [β Tauri]’

— 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). τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου (Lemma #5727). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου (Lemma #5727). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου (Lemma #5727). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου (Lemma #5727), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5727,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τοῦ βορείου κέρατος ὁ αὐτὸς τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ποδὸς τοῦ Ἡνιόχου ({Lemma} #5727)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5727/},
}