ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην
ho en tōi dexiōi pleurōi hupo tēn zōnēn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning δ Virginis
Literal translation The star in the right side under the girdle
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην ho en tōi dexiōi pleurōi hupo tēn zōnēn
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δ Virginis star

ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην

‘The star in the right side under the girdle [δ Virginis]’

— Ptolemy, Almagest 7

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 δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην (Lemma #5899). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην (Lemma #5899). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην (Lemma #5899). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην (Lemma #5899), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac5899,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ πλευρῷ ὑπὸ τὴν ζώνην ({Lemma} #5899)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5899/},
}