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Persons of the same fate (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
astrology
Mesopotamia
omens
Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Cicero, De Divinatione 2.92-93.:
Again, when the Chaldeans say, as they are bound to do, that all persons born anywhere in the habitable earth under the same horoscope, are alike and must have the same fate, is it not evident that these would-be interpreters of the sky are of a class who are utterly ignorant of the nature of the sky? … for they insist that all persons born at the same time, regardless of the place of birth, are born to the same fate.

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Cicero, De Divinatione 2.92-93.

Bibliography

Falconer 1964, 474-475Falconer, W. A. Cicero, De senectute, De amicitia, De divinatione. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1964.

Amar Annus


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