Suda, Suidae lexicon

4249 Ἄϲτρα βλέπειν κάλλιϲτον ἀνθρώποιϲ πέλει.

4249 ‘To look at the stars is the finest thing for men.’

4250 Ἀϲτράγαλοϲ: κυρίωϲ τὸ ϲύνηθεϲ λεγόμενον· καὶ ὁ ϲπόνδυλοϲ τοῦ τραχήλου, καὶ ὁ πεττικόϲ· καὶ βοτάνη δὲ οὕτωϲ καλεῖται. Ἀϲτράγαλοϲ· καὶ ὃν ἐθεάϲατο Βαλτάϲαρ ὁ υἱὸϲ Ναβουχοδονόϲορ ἐν τῷ δείπνῳ ἀνακείμενοϲ κατέναντι τοῦ τοίχου, ὡϲ ἀϲτράγαλον χειρὸϲ ἀνθρώπου, γράφοντα τῇ Ἑβραΐδι γλώττη, ἃ μηδεὶϲ ἠδύνατο γνῶναι. μεταϲτειλάμενοϲ δὲ τὸν Δανιὴλ παρεκάλει ἑρμηνεῦϲαι αὐτῷ ταῦτα. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· τὸν ἀϲτράγαλον, ὃν εἶδεϲ, χείρ ἐϲτι θεοῦ ζῶντοϲ· καὶ ἔγραψεν, ὅτι ἐμέτρηϲε καὶ ἐπλήρωϲε τὴν βαϲιλείαν ϲου. ἀκούϲαϲ οὖν ὁ Βαλτάϲαρ ἐθλίβη, καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον ὑπὸ Δαρείου τοῦ Μήδου ἀνῃρέθη. καὶ Ἀϲτραγαλίζω.

4250 Astragalos [knucklebone]: properly, the thing commonly so called; also the vertebra of the neck, and the gaming-piece; and a plant too is called this. Astragalos: also the one which Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, saw as he reclined at dinner, opposite the wall, like the knuckle of a man’s hand, writing in the Hebrew tongue things that no one could understand. Sending for Daniel, he begged him to interpret these things for him. And he said to him: ‘The knuckle that you saw is the hand of the living God; and it wrote that he has measured and completed your kingdom.’ Hearing this, Belshazzar was distressed, and a little later he was killed by Darius the Mede. Also astragalizō [I play at knucklebones].

4251Ἀϲτράμψυχοϲ, ὃϲ βιβλίον ἰατρικὸν εἰϲ ὄνων θεραπείαν πεποίηκε, καὶ Ὀνειροκριτικόν.

4251 Astrampsychus, who wrote a medical book on the treatment of donkeys, and an Oneirocritica [book of dream interpretation].

4252 Ἀϲτραπή: ἔξαψιϲ νεφῶν παρατριβομένων ἢ ῥηγνυμένων ὑπὸ πνεύματοϲ. καὶ παροιμία· Ἀϲτραπὴ ἐκ πυελίου· ἐπὶ τῆϲ οὐθενείαϲ. παρόϲον οὐδὲν δύνανται αἱ ἐκ τῶν κρηνῶν καὶ πυέλων μαρμαρυγαί.

4252 Astrapē [lightning]: an ignition of clouds rubbing together or burst by wind. And a proverb: ‘Lightning from a little basin’: said of worthlessness, since the flashes from springs and basins can do nothing.

4253 Ἀϲτράπτω· δοτικῇ.

4253 Astraptō [I flash]: with the dative.

2212 Πραξιδἰκη: θεόϲ, ἦϲ κεφαλὴν μόνον ἱδρύοντο. Μναϲέαϲ δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐρώπηϲ Σωτῆροϲ καὶ τῆϲ ἀδελφῆϲ Πραξιδίκηϲ γενέϲθαι Κτήϲιον υἱὸν καὶ θυγατέραϲ Ὁμόνοιαν καὶ Ἀρετήν, ἂϲ ἀπὸ τῆϲ μητρὸϲ Πραξιδίκαϲ κληθῆναι. Διονύϲιοϲ δὲ ἐν Κτίϲεϲιν Ὠγύγου θυγατέραϲ, Ἀλκομένεια, Θελξίνειαν, Αὐλίδα, ἃϲ ὕϲτερον Πραξιδίκαϲ ὀνομαϲθῆναι.

2212 Praxidike: a goddess, of whom they set up only the head. Mnaseas, in his work On Europe, [says] that from Soter and his sister Praxidike were born a son, Ctesius, and daughters, Homonoia [Concord] and Arete [Virtue], who were called Praxidikai after their mother. But Dionysius in his Foundations [says that] the daughters of Ogygus, Alcomeneia, Thelxineia and Aulis, were later named Praxidikai.