ἀμφίκυρτος
amphikurtos

Greek adjective

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning gibbous
Literal translation doubly convex
Variants
ἀμφίκυρτος amphikurtos
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gibbous lunar phase

Ὅθεν ἀναγκαῖον τὰς προγενομένας συνόδους ἢ πανσελήνους πρὸ τῶν τροπικῶν καὶ ἰσημερινῶν σκοπῆσαι καὶ τὰς μεταξὺ ἕως τῶν ἐφεξῆς τροπῶν, μήπως ὑπὸ ἀγαθοποιῶν ἢ κακοποιῶν μαρτυρῶνται, καὶ πρὸς αὐτὰς τὴν τῆς ἑξῆς τριμήνου κατάστασιν λαμβάνειν, τὰ δὲ μηνιαῖα ἀπὸ τῆς κατὰ μῆνα συνόδου σκοπεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἡμερήσια ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς Σελήνης σχημάτων μηνοειδῶν καὶ διχοτόμων καὶ ἀμφικύρτων καὶ πανσελήνων καὶ συνόδων.

‘Whence, it is necessary to look into the conjunctions and whole moons that have taken place previously for the tropical and equipartite zoidia, and the ones in between up to the next turnings, lest perchance they should be witnessed by benefics or malefics, and to take the condition, that of the next three month interval, in relation to them; and to look into monthly matters from the conjunctions by month, and yearly matters from the crescent figures of the Moon, and the half moons, convex moons, whole moons’ and conjunctions.’

— Hephaestion 1.23

Genre: astrological treatise
Date: 5th century CE


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ἀμφίκυρτος (Lemma #6309). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ἀμφίκυρτος (Lemma #6309). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). ἀμφίκυρτος (Lemma #6309). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) ἀμφίκυρτος (Lemma #6309), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac6309,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ἀμφίκυρτος ({Lemma} #6309)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6309/},
}