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The name aster is derived from the Latin word astrum and the Greek word astron, both of which mean star.
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Instead, they blend the Latin stēlla with the synonymous Latin astrum, the latter from the Ancient Greek for “star,” aster.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Instead, they blend the Latin stēlla with the synonymous Latin astrum, the latter from the Ancient Greek for “star,” aster.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Their whispers grow louder as I travel: astrum exuro, astrum exuro, astrum exuro divum cado …
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Iam I'm gratias ago meus felicis astrum ut Conor non ut tenuis quisquam in hic quoniam coniecto quis?
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Iam I'm gratias ago meus felicis astrum ut Conor non ut tenuis quisquam in hic quoniam coniecto quis?
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Iam I'm gratias ago meus felicis astrum ut Conor non ut tenuis quisquam in hic quoniam coniecto quis?
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But the fairest objects and enticings proceed from men themselves, which most frequently captivate, allure, and make them dote beyond all measure upon one another, and that for many respects: first, as some suppose, by that secret force of stars, (quod me tibi temperat astrum?)
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So that I may certainly conclude this strong conceit or imagination is astrum hominis, and the rudder of this our ship, which reason should steer, but, overborne by phantasy, cannot manage, and so suffers itself, and this whole vessel of ours to be overruled, and often overturned.
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Saturnumque gravem nostro Iove frangimus una: nescio quod certe est quod me tibi temperat astrum.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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