ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν
ho echomenos kai mesos tōn triōn

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-05-28
Primary meaning γ Leonis
Literal translation The one close to this, the middle one of the three
Variants
ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν ho echomenos kai mesos tōn triōn
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γ Leonis star

ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν

‘The one close to this, the middle one of the three [γ Leonis]’

— 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 ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/
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Meinhardt, K. (2025) ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν (Lemma #5964), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac5964,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ὁ ἐχόμενος καὶ μέσος τῶν τριῶν ({Lemma} #5964)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5964/},
}