τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος
tēs hepomenēs pleuras tōn 2 ho boreioteros

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 82 Virginis
Literal translation The northernmost of the 2 stars on the rear side
Variants
τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος tēs hepomenēs pleuras tōn 2 ho boreioteros
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82 Virginis star

τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος

‘The northernmost of the 2 stars on the rear side [82 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). τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5739). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5739). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5739). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5739), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5739,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς τῶν βʹ ὁ βορειότερος ({Lemma} #5739)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5739/},
}