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Panaetius, too, who was the only one
of the Stoics to reject the prophecies of astrologers,1
mentions Anchialus and Cassander as the greatest
astronomers of his day and states that they did not
employ their art as a means of divining, though they
were eminent in all other branches of astronomy.
Scylax of Halicarnassus, an intimate friend of Panaetius, and an eminent astronomer, besides being
the head of the government in his own city, utterly
repudiated the Chaldean method of foretelling the
future.
1 The word astrologus=“student of the stars,” can mean either “astronomer” or “astrologer.”
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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