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NOTES ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC. 275
fur das klass. Altcrtum, VIII, 1905, p. 534, n. 4), and it is
even older than that, for Hipparchus had already admitted a
"cognationem cum homine siderum, animasque, nostras par-
tern esse caeli" (Pliny, Hist, nat., II, 26, 95).
43. Vettius Valens, IX, 8 (Cat. codd. astr., V, 2, p. 123 =
= p. 242, 16, 29, Kroll ed.) ; cf. the passages
p. 346, 20, Kroll ed.), VI, prooem. (Cat., ibid. p. 34, p. 35, 14
of Philo collected
by Cohn, DC opificio mundi, c. 23, p. 24, and Capelle,
44. Manilius, IV, 14.
loc. cit.
45. Cf. my article on L etcrnitc dcs cmpercurs (Rev. hist.
litt. relig., I), 1898, pp. 445 ff.
46. Reitzenstein, to whom belongs the credit of having
shown the strength of this astrological fatalism (see infra,
n. 57), believes that it developed in Egypt, but surely he is
wrong. In this connection see the observations of Bousset, Got-
tlng. gel. Anzeigen, 1905, p. 74-
47. The most important work is unfortunately lost: it was
the Hepi el}jiapfj.ei>i)s by Diodorus of Tarsus. Photius has left us
a summary (cod. 223). We possess a treatise on the same
subject by Gregory of Nyssa (P. G., XLV, p. 145). They
were supported by the Platonist Hierocles (Photius, cod. 214,
p. 172 b.). Many attacks on astrology are found in St. Ephraim,
Opera syriaca, II, pp. 437 ff. ; St. Basil (He.vaem., VI.
5), St. Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Methodus (Symp.,
P. G.,
XVII, p. 1173) ; later in St. John Chrysostom, Procopus of
Gaza, etc. A curious extract from Julian of Halicarnassus
has been published by Usener, Rheinisches Mus., LV, 1900, p.
321. We have spoken briefly of the Latin polemics in the
Revue d hist. ct dc litt. relig., VIII, 1903, pp. 423 f. A work
entitled De Fato (Bardenhewer, Gcsch. altchr. Lit., I, p. 315)
has been attributed to Minucius Felix; Nicetas of Remesiana
(about 400) wrote a book Advcrsus gcncthlialogiam (Gennadius,
J ir. ml., c. 22), but the principal adversary of the
mathematici was St. Augustine (Civ. Dei, c. i ff. ; Epist., 246.
ad Lampadium, etc.). See also Wendland, Die hcUcnislischrdmische
Kultur, p. 172, n. 2.
48. The influence of the astrological ideas was felt by the
Arabian paganism before Mohammed; see supra, ch. VIII, n.
57-