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Chaldean astrologers in Rome (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
astrology
omens
Rome
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Historia Augusta, Severus 15.4-6:
[Septimius Severus] even went so far as to bring charges against several of his own friends on the ground that they were plotting to kill him. He put numerous others to death on the charge of having asked Chaldeans or soothsayers how long he was destined to live; and he was especially suspicious of anyone who seemed qualified for the imperial power, for his sons were still very young, and he believed or had heard that this fact was being observed by those who were seeking omens regarding their own prospects of the throne.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Historia Augusta, Severus 15.4-6

Bibliography

Magie 1960, I 404-407Magie, David. Scriptores Historiae Augustae. 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

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Cf. Chaldean astrologers in Rome (1)

Amar Annus


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