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‖ ˈapheta Astrol.
[L., ad. Gr. ἀϕέτης a letter-off; applied, according to Du Cange, to the Prætor, who gave the signal for starting in the chariot-races; hence fig. to the planet which starts a human being in his career.]
The giver of life in a nativity.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clvi. 650 You may alwayes import a danger of death, when you find the Apheta come to the hostill Beams of the killing Planet. 1696Phillips, Apheta, otherwise called Hylech, the giver of Life. 1755in Johnson. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 8 When..a number of planets are so situated that it seems doubtful which is the Apheta. |