τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος
tōn 2 tōn parakeimenōn tōi boreiotatōi tōn lamprōn ho boreios

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ν Scorpionis
Literal translation The northernmost of the 2 stars adjacent to the northernmost of the 3 bright ones [no. l]
Variants
τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος tōn 2 tōn parakeimenōn tōi boreiotatōi tōn lamprōn ho boreios
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ν Scorpionis star

τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος

‘The northernmost of the 2 stars adjacent to the northernmost of the 3 bright ones [no. l] [ν Scorpionis]’

— 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). τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5741). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5741). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5741). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος (Lemma #5741), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac5741,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῶν βʹ τῶν παρακειμένων τῷ βορειοτάτῳ τῶν λαμπρῶν ὁ βόρειος ({Lemma} #5741)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5741/},
}