ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς
ho boreioteros tēs hepomenēs pleuras

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning φ Tauri
Literal translation The northernmost one on the rear side
Variants
ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς ho boreioteros tēs hepomenēs pleuras
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φ Tauri star

ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς

‘The northernmost one on the rear side [φ Tauri]’

— 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). ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς (Lemma #5841). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς (Lemma #5841). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς (Lemma #5841). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς (Lemma #5841), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5841,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βορειότερος τῆς ἑπομένης πλευρᾶς ({Lemma} #5841)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5841/},
}