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Scorpio   /skˈɔrpiˌoʊ/   Listen
Scorpio

noun
(pl. scorpiones)
1.
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio.  Synonym: Scorpion.
2.
A large zodiacal constellation between Libra and Sagittarius.  Synonym: Scorpius.
3.
The eighth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about October 23 to November 21.  Synonyms: Scorpio the Scorpion, Scorpion.





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"Scorpio" Quotes from Famous Books



... reason, is still held in the utmost abomination by the Egyptians, and never named by them but with proper marks of detestation. These things, say they, were thus executed upon the 17th [Footnote: In the Egyptian calendar this day was marked triply unlucky.] day of the month Athyr, when the sun was in Scorpio, in the 28th year of Osiris' reign; though there are others who tell us that he was no more than 28 ...
— Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life • E. A. Wallis Budge
... these clouds, of the brightly-beaming constellation Argo, of the Milky Way between Scorpio, the Centaur, and the Southern Cross, the picturesque beauty, if one may so speak, of the whole expanse of the southern celestial hemisphere, has left upon my mind an ineffaceable impression. The zodiacal light, which rises in a pyramidal form, and constantly contributes, ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt


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