ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου
ho boreioteros autōn ep akrou tou toxou

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning μ Sagittarii
Literal translation The northernmost of these, on the tip of the bow
Variants
ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου ho boreioteros autōn ep akrou tou toxou
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μ Sagittarii star

ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου

‘The northernmost of these, on the tip of the bow [μ Sagittarii]’

— 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 ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5838). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5838). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5838). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5838), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5838,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ τόξου ({Lemma} #5838)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5838/},
}