ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ
ho en tōi aristerōi ōmōi

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning β Aquarii
Literal translation The star in the left shoulder
Variants
ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ ho en tōi aristerōi ōmōi
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β Aquarii star

ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ

‘The star in the left shoulder [β Aquarii]’

— 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 ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ (Lemma #5910). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ (Lemma #5910). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ (Lemma #5910). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ (Lemma #5910), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5910,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀριστερῷ ὤμῳ ({Lemma} #5910)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5910/},
}