ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν
ho boreios autōn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ξ Scorpionis
Literal translation The northernmost of them
Variants
ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν ho boreios autōn
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ξ Scorpionis star

ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν

‘The northernmost of them [ξ Scorpionis]’

— 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 βόρειος αὐτῶν (Lemma #5842). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν (Lemma #5842). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν (Lemma #5842). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν (Lemma #5842), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5842,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν ({Lemma} #5842)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5842/},
}