τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος
to hepomenon kai stenotaton peras tēs Pleiados

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 27 Tauri
Literal translation The rearmost and narrowest end of the Pleiades
Variants
τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος to hepomenon kai stenotaton peras tēs Pleiados
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27 Tauri star

τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος

‘The rearmost and narrowest end of the Pleiades [27 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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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος (Lemma #5735). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/

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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος (Lemma #5735). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος (Lemma #5735). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/

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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος (Lemma #5735), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac5735,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τὸ ἑπόμενον καὶ στενότατον πέρας τῆς Πλειάδος ({Lemma} #5735)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5735/},
}