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Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 260a: Another portent derived from a star with a tail. If you see a star with a tail looking towards the east, know that companies of armed men will enter into Babylon, and will destroy all the people [thereof]. And if a star with a tail rises, and becomes dark, know that there will be much war, and that destroying kings will rise up. And if it comes forth in the west or in the north, know that there will be war and rebellion in the House of Romans (= Byzantium).
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Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 260a
Bibliography
Budge 1913, 653 | Budge, E. A. Wallis. Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or The Book of Medicines. London: Oxford University Press 1913. |
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Cf. Portents of comets (2)
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