He analyzes the title by comparison with that of the Astronomica (plural; singular Astronomicôn) of Manilius, a Latin work on astronomy which Lovecraft knew and cited. (E. g., in an article titled " Mysteries of the Heavens ", published in the Asheville Gazette-News April 3, 1915, he says: " Manilius, referring to the Milky Way in his ' Astronomicon. '... ") He breaks it down as follows:: nekros, dead person, corpse;: nemein, to consider; and -: - ikon, an adjectival suffix equivalent to Latin - icum, English - ic, - ical.