ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου
ho en tōi notiōi merei tou toxou

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning ε Sagittarii
Literal translation The star in the southern portion of the bow
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου ho en tōi notiōi merei tou toxou
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ε Sagittarii star

ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου

‘The star in the southern portion of the bow [ε Sagittarii]’

— 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 νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5903). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5903). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5903). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου (Lemma #5903), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5903,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῷ νοτίῳ μέρει τοῦ τόξου ({Lemma} #5903)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5903/},
}