τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς
tou aristerou akrocheirou ho kaloumenos Stachus

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning α Virginis
Literal translation The star on the left hand, called ‘Spica’
Variants
τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς tou aristerou akrocheirou ho kaloumenos Stachus
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α Virginis star

τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς

‘The star on the left hand, called ‘Spica’ [α Virginis]’

— 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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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς (Lemma #5729). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς (Lemma #5729). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς (Lemma #5729). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς (Lemma #5729), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5729,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ἀκροχείρου ὁ καλούμενος Στάχυς ({Lemma} #5729)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5729/},
}