astrology
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- impious dotages
- description
- A system of belief and practice based on the supposed influence of celestial bodies on human affairs, which the narrator ultimately rejects as false and impious.
- nature
- lying divinations
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- rejected
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- By this time also had I rejected the lying divinations and impious dotages of the astrologers
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- Vindicianus, an acute old man, and Nebridius, a young man of admirable talents; the first vehemently affirming, and the latter often (though with some doubtfulness) saying, "That there was no such art whereby to foresee things to come
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- doubted
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- Nebridius, a young man of admirable talents; the first vehemently affirming, and the latter often (though with some doubtfulness) saying, "That there was no such art whereby to foresee things to come
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- his father had been very curious in such books
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- disproves
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- whatever, upon consideration of the constellations, was spoken truly, was spoken not out of art, but chance
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:50.230Z
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