ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός
ho diestōs autōn pros mesēmbrian monachos

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning 94 Aquarii
Literal translation The lone star at some distance from these [two] towards the south
Variants
ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός ho diestōs autōn pros mesēmbrian monachos
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94 Aquarii star

ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός

‘The lone star at some distance from these [two] towards the south [94 Aquarii]’

— 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 διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός (Lemma #5847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός (Lemma #5847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός (Lemma #5847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός (Lemma #5847), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5847,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ διεστὼς αὐτῶν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν μοναχός ({Lemma} #5847)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5847/},
}