Vindemiatrix

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latinized bayer designation

Epsilon Virginis

meaning

The name [Vindemiatrix] is a somewhat corrupted feminized Latin form for the original Greek name that meant “the Grape Gatherer,” as the first visibility of the star in morning light after the Sun cleared out of the way (the “heliacal rising”) told that it was time to pick the grapes.

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Epsilon Virginis

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STARS by Jim Kaler

Vindemiatrix (stars.astro.illinois.edu) VINDEMIATRIX (Epsilon Virginis). Just over the line into third magnitude (2.83) and third brightest in the constellation Virgo following first magnitude Spica (the Alpha star) and Porrima (Gamma), Vindemiatrix still wound up with Bayer’s Epsilon designation.

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