ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ
ho boreioteros autōn hupo to gonu

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 66 Aquarii
Literal translation The northernmost of these, under the knee
Variants
ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ ho boreioteros autōn hupo to gonu
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66 Aquarii star

ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ

‘The northernmost of these, under the knee [66 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 ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ (Lemma #5839). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ (Lemma #5839). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ (Lemma #5839). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ (Lemma #5839), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5839,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τὸ γόνυ ({Lemma} #5839)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5839/},
}