ἄστρον, τό,
mostly in plural, the stars, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.555, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.312, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 458, “Ag.” 4, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοῦ κατ᾽ ἄστρα Ζηνός, ={τοῦ ἐν οὐρανῷ}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1106] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄστρων εὐφρόνη, ={εὐφρ. ἀστερόεσσα}, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 19: _sing._, like{ἀστήρ}, frequently of Sirius (in full, σήριον ἄστρον] Refs] probable reading in [[ 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 23.63), 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 39, 40, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.6, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.10.9, +others] Refs 7th c.BC+]; περὶ τὸ ἄ. in the dog-days, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.7] Refs 5th c.BC+]; poetry of the sun, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 411b] Refs 5th c.BC+]: seldom of any common star, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).16, Scholia 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the fixed stars, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 290a20] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἄστρα πλανητά, opposed to ἀπλανῆ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 38c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐνδεδεμένα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 346a2] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀστέρες, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.21.9] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐπὶ τοῖς ἄστροις at the times of the stars' rising or setting, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 10, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 568a18] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄστροις σημαίνεσθαι, τεκμαίρεσθαι, guide oneself by the stars, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.7, 7.48] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἄστροις τὸ λοιπὸν ἐκμετρούμενος χθόνα knowing its place only by the stars, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 795: _metaphorically_, ἐχθροῖς ἄ. ὣς λάμψειν [prev. author] “El.” 66. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]