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ὡροσκόπ-ος

oroskopos · ὁ

caster of nativities, astrologer

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What it meant — LSJ

caster of nativities, astrologer

caster of nativities, astrologer, τὰς τῶν ὡροσκόπων βοτάνας Gal. 11.798.

2 of the ascendant

Adj., of the ascendant (v. infr. II), φέγγεα Man. 4.59, cf. 496.

II ascendant

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.

2

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.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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