τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος
tou hupo ton hēgoumenon Ichthun tetrapleurou tōn boreiōn 2 ho hēgoumenos

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 27 Piscium
Literal translation The quadrilateral under the advance fish: the more advanced of the 2 northern stars
Variants
τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος tou hupo ton hēgoumenon Ichthun tetrapleurou tōn boreiōn 2 ho hēgoumenos
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27 Piscium star

τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος

‘The quadrilateral under the advance fish: the more advanced of the 2 northern stars [27 Piscium]’

— Ptolemy, Almagest 8

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 ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος (Lemma #5733). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος (Lemma #5733). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος (Lemma #5733). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος (Lemma #5733), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5733,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τοῦ ὑπὸ τὸν ἡγούμενον Ἰχθὺν τετραπλεύρου τῶν βορείων βʹ ὁ ἡγούμενος ({Lemma} #5733)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5733/},
}