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ἀστήρ , ὁ, gen. έρος: dat. pl.
A.“ἀστράσι” Il.22.28,317 (Aristarch.; ἄστρασι Sch.Ven., Choerob.):—star (v. ἄστρον）“, ἀστέρ᾽ ὀπωρινῷ” Il. 5.5; “οὔλιος ἀ.” 11.62; “Σείριος ἀ.” Hes.Op.417; ἀ. Ἀρκτοῦρος the chief star in the constellation, ib.565, etc.; shooting star or meteor, Il.4.75; “οἱ διατρέχοντες ἀ.” Ar.Pax838; “ᾁττοντας ὥσπερ ἀστέρας” Pl.R. 621b, cf. Arist.Mete.341a33, Plu.Agis11.
2. flame, light, fire, E.Hel.1131 (lyr.).
3. ἀστὴρ πέτρινος meteoric stone, Placit.2.13.9.
II. metaph. of illustrious persons, etc., “φανερώτατον ἀστέρ᾽ Ἀθήνας” E.Hipp.1122 (lyr.); “Μουσάων ἀστέρα καὶ Χαρίτων” AP7.1.8 (Alc. Mess.)
III. star-fish, Hp.Nat.Mul.32, Arist.HA548a7, PA681b9, etc.
IV. name of a bird, perh. goldfinch, Dionys.Av.3.2.
V. blue daisy, Aster Amellus, Nic.Fr.74.66, Dsc.4.119.
VI. Samian clay used as sealing-wax, and in Medicine, Thphr.Lap.63, Dsc.5.153, Gal.12.178, al.
VII. architectural ornament, IG4.1484.83 (Epid.), SIG241B111 (Delph., iv B. C.).
VIII. bandage, Gal.18 (1).823.
2. name of various remedies, Id.12.761, al.
IX. birthmark in form of star, Carcin. ap. Arist.Po.1454b22: in Palmistry, a mark on the hand, “τῷ ύ στοιχείῳ παραπλήσιον” Cat.Cod.Astr.7.238.28. (Cf. Skt. stár- `star', Lat. stella (from stēr-la), Goth. stairnō.）
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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    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1122
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    • Homer, Iliad, 11.62
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    • Plato, Republic, 621b
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