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Portents of comets (2)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
astrology
omens
stars
Syria
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 260a:
Portents derived from these (stars). The star with a tail portends famine and pestilence. The star with a (tail similar to a) spear portends wars and strifes. The star with a (tail similar to a) beard portends a change of kingdoms and the downfall of the Government. And know that in that quarter of the earth to which the tail of the star is directed there will be anger, and that which is to be will be.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Syriac Book of Medicines, fol. 260a

Bibliography

Budge 1913, 652-653Budge, 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 (1)
Cf. Portents of comets (3)

Amar Annus


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