ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς
ho boreios tōn 3 kai ep akras tēs ouras

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ρ Piscium
Literal translation The northernmost of the 3, which is also on the end of the tail
Variants
ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς ho boreios tōn 3 kai ep akras tēs ouras
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ρ Piscium star

ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς

‘The northernmost of the 3, which is also on the end of the tail [ρ Piscium]’

— 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 τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς (Lemma #5845). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς (Lemma #5845). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς (Lemma #5845). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς (Lemma #5845), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5845,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βόρειος τῶν γʹ καὶ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς ({Lemma} #5845)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5845/},
}