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Merry and sociable, like those born under the planet Jupiter, which astrologers considered the happiest of the natal stars.
“Our jovial star reigned at his birth.”
Shakespeare: Cymbeline, v. 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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