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The chance meeting on the road (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Diagnostic and prognostic omens (Enīma ana bēt marṣi)
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
05.04.05 Therapeutic magic
05.04.05.01 Diagnostic and prognostic omens (Enīma ana bēt marṣi)
Travel Omens
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.02 Omen interpretation
05.02.02 Terrestrial omens (Šumma ālu)
05.02.02.06 Travel Omens

Keywords
omens

Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.72 (Scholia):
Another is (observation) from (chance) meeting on the road … (Chance) meeting on the road is when (someone) interprets things occurring on the road - that, if someone meets you carrying such and such, (then) such and such will happen to you; and if such and such, (then) such and such. This Polles (Pwlys) wrote about.

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

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 116-117

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

Amar Annus

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