11. Chapter [Greek: Peri deipnou]: _Cat. codd. astr._, IV, p. 94. The precept: "Ungues Mercurio, barbam Iove, Cypride crinem," {272} ridiculed by Ausonius, (VII, 29, p. 108, Piper) is well known. There are many chapters [Greek: Peri onuchon, Peri himation], etc. 12. _Cat. codd. astr._, V, 1 (Rom.) p. 11, cod. 2, f. 34: [Greek: Peri tou ei echei megan rhina ho gennetheis. Poteron porne genetai he gennetheisa.] 13. Varro, _De re rustica_, I, 37, 2; cf. Pliny, _Hist. nat._, XVI, 75, Sec. 194. Olympiod, _Comm. in Alcibiad Plat._, p. 18 (ed. Creuzer, 1821): [Greek: Tous hieratikos zontas estin idein me apokeiromenous auxouses tes selenes]. This applies to popular superstition rather than to astrology. 14. _CIL_, VI, 27140 = Buecheler, _Carmina epigraph._, 1163: "Decepit utrosque | Maxima mendacis fama mathematici." 15. Palchos in the _Cat. codd. astr._, I, pp. 106-107. 16. Manilius, IV, 386 ff., 866 ff. _passim_. 17. Vettius Valens, V, 12 (_Cat. codd. astr._, V, 2, p. 32 = p. 239, 8, Kroll ed.); cf. V, 9 (_Cat._, V, 2, p. 31, 20 = p. 222, 11 Kroll ed.). 18. Cf. Steph. Byz., _Cat. codd. astr._, II, p. 186. He calls both [Greek: stochasmos entechnos]. The expression is taken up again by Manuel Comnenus (_Cat._, V, 1, p. 123, 4), and by the Arab Abou-Mashar [Apomasar] (_Cat._, V, 2, p. 153). 19. The sacerdotal origin of astrology was well known to the ancients; see Manilius, I, 40 ff. 20. Thus in the chapter on the fixed stars which passed down to Theophilus of Edessa and a Byzantine of the ninth century, from a pagan author who wrote at Rome in 379; cf. _Cat. codd. astrol._, V, 1, pp. 212, 218.--The same observation has been made in the manuscripts of the Cyranides, cf. F. de Mely and Ruelle, _Lapidaires grecs_, II, p. xi. n. 3.--See also _Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, pp. 31 ff.; Boll, _Die Erforsch. der antiken Astrologie_, pp. 110 ff. 21. In Vettius Valens, III, 12 (p. 150, 12 Kroll ed.) and IX, prooem. (p. 329, 20); cf. VI, prooem. (p. 241, 16); Riess, _Petosiridis et Necheps. fragm._, fr. 1. 22. Vettius Valens, IV, 11 (_Cat. codd, astr._, V, 2, p. 86 = p. 172, 31 ff., Kroll ed.), cf. V, 12, (_Cat._, _ibid._, p. 32 = p. 238, 18 ff.), VII prooem. (_Cat._, p. 41 = p. 263, l. 4, Kroll ed. and the note). {273} 23. Firmicus Maternus, II, 30, VIII, prooem. and 5. Cf. Theophilus of Edessa, _Cat._, V, 1, p. 238, 25; Julian of Laod., _Cat._, IV, p. 104, 4. 24. _CIL_, V, 5893.--Chaeremon, an Egyptian priest, was also an astrologer. 25. Souter, _Classical Review_, 1897, p. 136; Ramsay, _Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia_, II, p. 566, 790. 26. On the Stoic theory of sympathy see Bouche-Leclercq, pp. 28 ff., _passim_. A brilliant account will be found in Proclus, _In remp. Plat._, II, 258 f., Kroll ed. Cf. also Clem. Alex., _Strom._, VI, 16, p. 143 (p. 504, 21, Staehelin ed.)--Philo attributed it to the Chaldeans (_De migrat. Abrahami_, 32, II, p. 303, 5, Wendland):