ἀστέρων (asteron)

ἀστέρων is an Ancient Greek form of ἀστήρ, meaning “star”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative or genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 200 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.28.1: τοῦ δ’ αὐτοῦ θέρους νουμηνίᾳ κατὰ σελήνην, ὥσπερ καὶ μόνον δοκεῖ εἶναι γίγνεσθαι δυνατόν, ὁ ἥλιος ἐξέλιπε μετὰ μεσημβρίαν καὶ πάλιν ἀνεπληρώθη, γενόμενος μηνοειδὴς καὶ ἀστέρων τινῶν ἐκφανέντων.

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 32.1: Ἀστέρων πάντων ὀ κάλιστος . . .

All forms of ἀστήρ (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.