ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος

ho en tēi ourai tou autou Ichthuos
Greek · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-28
Meanings
Literal translation
The star in the tail of the same [advance] fish
Categories
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1. ω Piscium

1.a ω Piscium star

ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος

‘The star in the tail of the same [advance] fish [ω 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 ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος (Lemma #5895). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος (Lemma #5895). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος (Lemma #5895). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος (Lemma #5895), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5895,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἰχθύος ({Lemma} #5895)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5895/},
}