Proclus quotes a Babylonian omen (1)

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Aristotle’s successor, Theophrastus of Eresus on the interpretation of heavenly signs.

Proclus, In Timaeum 1-9 (ed. Diehl, vol. 3 p. 151):
… in his own days the Chaldeans had the theoretical knowledge of how to predict, in particular, the lives and deaths of individuals and not just general events such as bad weather or good - as in their assertion that if Mercury becomes visible in winter it indicates frost, but if it becomes visible in summer it sends them heat.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Proclus, In Timaeum 1-9 (ed. Diehl, vol. 3 p. 151)

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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