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for no magistrate and no man
of any reputation ever consults them; but in all
other places lots have gone entirely out of use.
And this explains the remark which, according to
Clitomachus, Carneades used to make that he had
at no other place seen Fortune more fortunate than
at Praeneste.1 Then let us dismiss this branch of
divination.
42. "Let us come to Chaldean manifestations.
In discussing them Plato's pupil, Eudoxus, whom
the best scholars consider easily the first in astronomy, has left the following opinion in writing:
'No reliance whatever is to be placed in Chaldean
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astrologers when they profess to forecast a man's
future from the position of the stars on the day of
his birth.'
1 i.e. the reputation of the lots at Praeneste lasted longer than elsewhere.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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