τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος
tou en tōi aristerōi mērōi tetrapleurou tēs proēgoumenēs pleuras ho boreios

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 74 Virginis
Literal translation The quadrilateral in the left thigh: the northern star on the advance side
Variants
τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος tou en tōi aristerōi mērōi tetrapleurou tēs proēgoumenēs pleuras ho boreios
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74 Virginis star

τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος

‘The quadrilateral in the left thigh: the northern star on the advance side [74 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 ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5732). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5732), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5732,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ μηρῷ τετραπλεύρου τῆς προηγουμένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος ({Lemma} #5732)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5732/},
}