ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην
ho boreioteros autōn kai hupo tēn ankulēn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning τ Aquarii
Literal translation The northernmost of them, under the knee-bend
Variants
ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην ho boreioteros autōn kai hupo tēn ankulēn
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τ Aquarii star

ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην

‘The northernmost of them, under the knee-bend [τ Aquarii]’

— 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). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην (Lemma #5837). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην (Lemma #5837). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην (Lemma #5837). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην (Lemma #5837), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5837,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύλην ({Lemma} #5837)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5837/},
}