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Libra

noun

(pl. librae)

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra. Synonym: Balance.

A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Virgo and Scorpius.

The seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22. Synonyms: Balance, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales.

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... stars of the lamb and two kids, (Aries,) when these animals were born; stars of the crab, (Cancer,) when the sun, touching the tropic, returned backwards; stars of the wild goat, (Capricorn,) when the sun reached the highest point in his yearly track; stars of the balance, (Libra,) when days and nights were in equilibrium; stars of the scorpion, (Scorpio,) when periodical simooms burned like the venom of a scorpion; and so on of ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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