‖ sateˈllitium Astrol. Obs.
[L. = body-guard, retinue, f. satelles satelles.]
? A retinue or company (of planets).
| 1669–96 Aubrey Brief Lives, Hobbes (1898) I. 328 His horoscope is Taurus, having in it a satellitium of 5 of the 7 planets. It is a maxime in astrologie—vide Ptol. Centil.—that a native that hath a satellitium in his ascendent becomes more eminent in his life then ordinary. |