ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ
ho boreios autōn kai kaloumenos Protrugētēr

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ε Virginis
Literal translation The northernmost of these, called ‘Vindemiatrix’
Variants
ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ ho boreios autōn kai kaloumenos Protrugētēr
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ε Virginis star

ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ

‘The northernmost of these, called ‘Vindemiatrix’ [ε Virginis]’

— 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 βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ (Lemma #5843). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ (Lemma #5843). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ (Lemma #5843). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ (Lemma #5843), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5843,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ καλούμενος Προτρυγητήρ ({Lemma} #5843)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5843/},
}