ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ
ho en tōi a apo tou sōmatos spondulōi

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ε Scorpionis
Literal translation The star in the first [tail-] joint from the body
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ ho en tōi a apo tou sōmatos spondulōi
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ε Scorpionis star

ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ

‘The star in the first [tail-] joint from the body [ε Scorpionis]’

— 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 τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ (Lemma #5897). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ (Lemma #5897). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ (Lemma #5897). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ (Lemma #5897), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5897,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῷ αʹ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος σπονδύλῳ ({Lemma} #5897)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5897/},
}