caster of nativities, astrologer, τὰς τῶν ὡροσκόπων βοτάνας Gal. 11.798.
Adj., of the ascendant (v. infr. II), φέγγεα Man. 4.59, cf. 496.
as Subst., ὡροσκόπος, ὁ, the sign or degree rising at the time of birth, ascendant, Ptol. Tetr. 33, 130, S.E. M. 5.12, 50, 61, Porph. ap. Stob. 2.8.42.
pl., of certain stellar deities whose names agree in part with those of the δεκανοί II, from which, however, they are distd., τῶν λσʹ λαμπρῶν ὡροσκόπων PLond. 1.98r15, al., cf. Iamb. Myst. 8.4.