ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος
ho ep akras tēs notiou kai aristeras pterugos

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning β Virginis
Literal translation The star on the tip of the southern, left wing
Variants
ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος ho ep akras tēs notiou kai aristeras pterugos
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β Virginis star

ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος

‘The star on the tip of the southern, left wing [β 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 ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος (Lemma #5957). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος (Lemma #5957). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος (Lemma #5957). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος (Lemma #5957), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5957,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς νοτίου καὶ ἀριστερᾶς πτέρυγος ({Lemma} #5957)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5957/},
}