ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου
ho boreios autōn kai ep akrou tou ouraiou

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 46 Capricorni
Literal translation The northernmost of them, on the end of the tail-fin
Variants
ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου ho boreios autōn kai ep akrou tou ouraiou
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46 Capricorni star

ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου

‘The northernmost of them, on the end of the tail-fin [46 Capricorni]’

— 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 καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου (Lemma #5844). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου (Lemma #5844). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου (Lemma #5844). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου (Lemma #5844), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5844,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βόρειος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐραίου ({Lemma} #5844)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5844/},
}