ἄστρον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, mostly in pl., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[the stars]], <span class="bibl">Il.8.555</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.12.312</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>458</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>4</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τοῦ κατ' ἄστρα Ζηνός</b>, = [[τοῦ ἐν οὐρανῷ]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1106</span>; <b class="b3">ἄστρων εὐφρόνη</b>, = εὐφρ. [[ἀστερόεσσα]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>19</span>: sg., like [[ἀστήρ]], freq. of Sirius (in full, <b class="b3">σήριον ἄστρον</b> prob. l. in <span class="bibl">Alcm.23.63</span>), <span class="bibl">Alc.39</span>,<span class="bibl">40</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>4.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>6.10.9</span>, al.; <b class="b3">περὶ τὸ ἄ</b>. in the [[dog-days]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>7.7</span>; poet. of the sun, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Def.</span>411b</span>: seldom of [[any common star]], Gal.17(1).16, Sch.<span class="bibl">Arat.11</span>; of the fixed stars, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Cael.</span>290a20</span>; <b class="b3">ἄστρα πλανητά</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἀπλανῆ</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>38c</span>; opp. <b class="b3">ἐνδεδεμένα</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span> 346a2</span>; opp. <b class="b3">ἀστέρες</b>, Herm. ap. Stob.1.21.9; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τοῖς ἄστροις</b> at the times of <b class="b2">the stars'</b> rising or setting, Hp.Aër.10, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>568a18</span>; <b class="b3">ἄστροις σημαίνεσθαι, τεκμαίρεσθαι</b>, guide oneself by [[the stars]], <span class="bibl">Ael. <span class="title">NA</span>2.7</span>, <span class="bibl">7.48</span>; <b class="b3">ἄστροις τὸ λοιπὸν ἐκμετρούμενος χθόνα</b> knowing its place only by [[the stars]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>795</span>: metaph., ἐχθροῖς ἄ. ὣς λάμψειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>66</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of something [[brilliant]], [[admirable]], Ἀκροκόρινθον Ἑλλάδος ἄ. <span class="title">AP</span>7.297 (Polystr.), cf. <span class="bibl">9.400</span> (Pall.), <span class="title">APl.</span>4.295; Σωκρατικῆς σοφίης ἄ. <span class="title">IG</span>3.770[[a]].</span>