τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον
tēs metaxu tōn akrōn tou Leontos kai tēs Arktou nepheloeidous sustrophēs kaloumenou Plokamou to boreiotaton

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning γ
Literal translation The northernmost part of the nebulous mass between the edges of Leo and Ursa [Major], called Coma [Berenices]
Variants
τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον tēs metaxu tōn akrōn tou Leontos kai tēs Arktou nepheloeidous sustrophēs kaloumenou Plokamou to boreiotaton
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τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον

‘The northernmost part of the nebulous mass between the edges of Leo and Ursa [Major], called Coma [Berenices] [γ ]’

— 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). τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον (Lemma #5737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον (Lemma #5737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον (Lemma #5737). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον (Lemma #5737), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac5737,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῆς μεταξὺ τῶν ἄκρων τοῦ Λέοντος καὶ τῆς Ἄρκτου νεφελοειδοῦς συστροφῆς καλουμένου Πλοκάμου τὸ βορειότατον ({Lemma} #5737)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5737/},
}