ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός
ho en tēi labēi tēs aristeras cheiros

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning δ Sagittarii
Literal translation The star in the [bow-] grip held by the left hand
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός ho en tēi labēi tēs aristeras cheiros
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δ Sagittarii star

ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός

‘The star in the [bow-] grip held by the left hand [δ 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 ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός (Lemma #5894). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός (Lemma #5894). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός (Lemma #5894). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός (Lemma #5894), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5894,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῇ λαβῇ τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρός ({Lemma} #5894)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5894/},
}