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to investigate by other signs, he obeyed, and at that time which we mentioned, he responded that the conception took place: which time indeed corresponds to the twenty-fourth of June in the Julian calendar, in which there was undoubtedly a conjunction of the lights original: "coniunctio luminum," referring to the alignment of the Sun and Moon: but without any eclipse of the Sun: even though he says there was a total eclipse original: "παντελῆ ἔκλειψιν". Let the Caster of Nativities original: "Genethliace," referring to an astrologer who casts birth charts see how this "pillar of astrology," whom the most learned of the men of the toga likely a reference to Cicero, who consulted Tarrutius held in such high esteem, could sing the fates of a man enclosed within his mother's womb when he was ignorant of such a trivial matter. Again, Romulus was brought forth into the light on the 21st of Thoth the first month of the Egyptian calendar, according to the same author, at sunrise: that is, the 24th of March, on which day the 27th part of Pisces corresponded. And yet the ancients, whom Manilius followed, recorded that he was born with Libra as the horoscope the rising sign or Ascendant. Let us proceed. The same Tarrutius prophesied that the city was founded in the first year of the 7th Olympiad, on the 9th day of Thoth, which is the 7th of March, with the Sun in the tenth degree of Pisces, between the second and third hours. But Solinus draws from the same Tarrutius the theme of the city's birthday as the 11th day before the Kalends of May April 21st, on which day the 25th degree of Aries corresponded, although he himself places the Sun in Taurus, Mercury at a very great distance from the Sun, and other trifles besides, which he nevertheless attributes to Tarrutius; of whose work he retained nothing correctly except the hour, which he pronounced with him to be between the second and the third. But these are light matters. I shall set forth an example that reveals the [over]confidence of the nation of Casters of Nativities. Theagenes the Mathematician in this period, "mathematicus" often meant an astrologer, from those things which had happened to the young Octavian (because the true time...