ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον
ho en tōi 6 spondulōi tōi para to kentron

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-06-02
Primary meaning κ Scorpionis
Literal translation The star in the 7th joint, the joint next to the sting
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον ho en tōi 6 spondulōi tōi para to kentron
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κ Scorpionis star

ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον

‘The star in the 7th joint, the joint next to the sting [κ 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 ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον (Lemma #5902). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον (Lemma #5902). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον (Lemma #5902). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον (Lemma #5902), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5902,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῷ ζʹ σπονδύλῳ τῷ παρὰ τὸ κέντρον ({Lemma} #5902)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5902/},
}