[Meaning] the arrangement of the stars.[1]
Babylonians were the first to discover this through Zoroaster;[2] and with them Ostanes.[3] They established that [events] happen by a heavenly motion around those who are being born. After them Egyptians and Greeks received this [teaching] and attribute those who are begotten to the movement of the stars.
Also [sc. attested is the proverbial phrase] a)/strois tekmai/resqai ["to judge by stars"], in reference to those traveling a long and lonely journey[4] and reckoning the location of their homelands by stars.
Also [sc. attested is the adjective] a)strw=|os ["starry"], [meaning] the one [who comes] out of the stars.[5]
Magic and astrology began from Magousaeans. For the Persians are called Magog by their countrymen. And the same are [called] Magousaeans.[6]