χαλδ-αῖος, ὁ,
Chaldaean, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.155, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 638, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II astrologer, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 35, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Div.” 1.1.2, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.42S., 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 2.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] (since the Chaldaeans were given to astrology,[[compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.17.1, etc.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—Χαλδαία (i.e. γῆ), ἡ, Chaldaea, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Stephanus Byzantius, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Geographia” 5.19 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— Χαλδαϊκός, ή, όν, Chaldaean, γράμματα [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.529f ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἱστορίαι, title of work by Berosus, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 10.11.1, compare “Ap.” 1.20 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; μέθοδος, i.e. astrology, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.43 (so -κή alone, [prev. work] 45); ἐπιτηδεύματα 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus cited in 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus] Refs 2nd c.AD+] see entry {Χαλδαϊκοῖς}: comparative -ώτερος[[ [prev. author] “Pr.” 206. ] Refs] adverb -κῶς[[ [prev. work] 183] Refs]— Χαλδαϊστί, adverb in the Chaldaean language, [[ LXX.Dan.2.26, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.546. ] LXX+1st c.AD+]