τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος
tōn en akrōi tōi kraniōi 2 ho notios

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ν Virginis
Literal translation The southernmost of the 2 stars in the top of the skull
Variants
τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος tōn en akrōi tōi kraniōi 2 ho notios
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ν Virginis star

τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος

‘The southernmost of the 2 stars in the top of the skull [ν 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). τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος (Lemma #5804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος (Lemma #5804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος (Lemma #5804). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος (Lemma #5804), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5804,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {τῶν ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ κρανίῳ βʹ ὁ νότιος ({Lemma} #5804)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5804/},
}