ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν
ho boreios tōn triōn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning φ Virginis
Literal translation The northernmost of the three
Variants
ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν ho boreios tōn triōn
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φ Virginis star

ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν

‘The northernmost of the three [φ 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

υ Sagittarii star

ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν

‘The northernmost of the three [υ Sagittarii]’

— 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 τριῶν (Lemma #5846). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5846). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5846). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5846), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5846,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ βόρειος τῶν τριῶν ({Lemma} #5846)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5846/},
}