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Observation in the house (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
omens
Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.72 (Scholia):
Another is observation in the house … Observation in the house is when someone interprets things that happen in the house, and says that it portends such and such - because a weasel has been seen on the roof, or a snake or a mouse, or (because) honey or oil or wine or ashes has been spilt, or something else; (and we say) that it portends such and such. These things Xenocrates wrote about.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.72 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 116-117Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus


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