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Sulla and a Chaldean (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Physiognomic omens (Alandimmû and Nigdimdimmû) 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.06 Physiognomic omens (Alandimmû and Nigdimdimmû)	Keywords omens physiognomy Rome
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Plutarch, Sulla 5.5-6:
It is also recorded that a certain man in the retinue of Orobazus, a Chaldean, after looking Sulla intently in the face, and studying carefully the movements of his mind and body, and investigating his nature according to the principles of his peculiar art, declared that this man must of necessity become the greatest in the world, and that even now the wonder was that he consented not to be first of all men.

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Plutarch, Sulla 5.5-6

Bibliography

Perrin 1959, IV 336-337

Perrin, Bernadotte. Plutarch's Lives. 11 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1959.

Amar Annus

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