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ὡρόσκοπ-ος (parox.), ὁ, Astrol.,
A.caster of nativities, astrologer, “τὰς τῶν ὡροσκόπων βοτάνας” Gal.11.798.
2. Adj., of the ascendant (v. infr. 11), “φέγγεα” Man.4.59, cf. 496.
II. 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” 11, from which, however, they are distd., “τῶν λς´ λαμπρῶν ὡροσκόπων” PLond.1.98r15, al., cf. Iamb.Myst.8.4.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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