The corpus record

ὡροσκοπ-εῖον

oroskopeion · τό

clocks, instrument for observing the

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant — LSJ

clocks

= ὡρολόγιον, Str. 2.5.14, Gem. 2.35, Boeth. ap. Eus. PE 11.28; ὕδριον ὡροσκοπεῖον Hero Spir. 1 Praef.; also ὡροσκόπιον, D.L. 2.1, 6.104; τὰ ὑδρεῖα τῶν ὡροσκοπίων water-clocks, Simp. in Ph. 1335.14.

ὡροσκόπιον, = ὡροσκόπος II, S.E. M. 5.68.

2 instrument for observing the

instrument for observing the ὡροσκόπος, τῆς διʼ ἀστρολάβων ὡροσκοπίων κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ἔκτεξιν διοπτεύσεως Ptol. Tetr. 108.

In the wild

ὡροσκοπεῖα · hōroskopeia Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1057)
ὡροσκοπεῖον · hōroskopeion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 5463)

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