τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος
tōn en tois gloutois 2 ho boreioteros

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 81 Leonis
Literal translation The northernmost of the 2 stars in the buttocks
Variants
τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος tōn en tois gloutois 2 ho boreioteros
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81 Leonis star

τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος

‘The northernmost of the 2 stars in the buttocks [81 Leonis]’

— 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). τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5764). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5764). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5764). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος (Lemma #5764), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5764,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῶν ἐν τοῖς γλουτοῖς βʹ ὁ βορειότερος ({Lemma} #5764)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5764/},
}