ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν
ho en tēi hepomenēi akanthēi peri tēn ouran

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ψ Piscium
Literal translation The star in the rear spine, near the tail
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν ho en tēi hepomenēi akanthēi peri tēn ouran
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ψ Piscium star

ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν

‘The star in the rear spine, near the tail [ψ 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 ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν (Lemma #5896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν (Lemma #5896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν (Lemma #5896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν (Lemma #5896), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5896,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῇ ἑπομένῃ ἀκάνθῃ περὶ τὴν οὐράν ({Lemma} #5896)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5896/},
}