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Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 24.167
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1. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 4.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2.14. Now, this [man], grammarian as he was, could not certainly tell which was the poet Homer’s country, no more than he could which was the country of Pythagoras, who lived comparatively but a little while ago; yet does he thus easily determine the age of Moses, who preceded them such a vast number of years, as depending on his ancient men’s relation, which shows how notorious a liar he was. 2.14. However, if any one should ask Apion which of the Egyptians he thinks to be the most wise, and most pious of them all, he would certainly acknowledge the priests to be so;
3. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.639-1.672 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 24.156, 24.160, 30.18, 30.84, 37.54 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Suetonius, Augustus, 94.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. Apuleius, Apology, 42.6-42.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

7. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 45.1.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

45.1.4.  This man could distinguish most accurately of his contemporaries the order of the firmament and the differences between the stars, what they accomplish when by themselves and when together, by their conjunctions and by their intervals, and for this reason had incurred the charge of practising some forbidden art.
8. Pseudo Clementine Literature, Homilies, 5.2, 5.4-5.7, 5.13 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

9. Augustine, The City of God, 5.3 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

5.3. It is to no purpose, therefore, that that famous fiction about the potter's wheel is brought forward, which tells of the answer which Nigidius is said to have given when he was perplexed with this question, and on account of which he was called Figulus. For, having whirled round the potter's wheel with all his strength he marked it with ink, striking it twice with the utmost rapidity, so that the strokes seemed to fall on the very same part of it. Then, when the rotation had ceased, the marks which he had made were found upon the rim of the wheel at no small distance apart. Thus, said he, considering the great rapidity with which the celestial sphere revolves, even though twins were born with as short an interval between their births as there was between the strokes which I gave this wheel, that brief interval of time is equivalent to a very great distance in the celestial sphere. Hence, said he, come whatever dissimilitudes may be remarked in the habits and fortunes of twins. This argument is more fragile than the vessels which are fashioned by the rotation of that wheel. For if there is so much significance in the heavens which cannot be comprehended by observation of the constellations, that, in the case of twins, an inheritance may fall to the one and not to the other, why, in the case of others who are not twins, do they dare, having examined their constellations, to declare such things as pertain to that secret which no one can comprehend, and to attribute them to the precise moment of the birth of each individual? Now, if such predictions in connection with the natal hours of others who are not twins are to be vindicated on the ground that they are founded on the observation of more extended spaces in the heavens, while those very small moments of time which separated the births of twins, and correspond to minute portions of celestial space, are to be connected with trifling things about which the mathematicians are not wont to be consulted - for who would consult them as to when he is to sit, when to walk abroad, when and on what he is to dine? - how can we be justified in so speaking, when we can point out such manifold diversity both in the habits, doings, and destinies of twins?


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