9. Friedländer, _Sittengesch._, I, p. 364. It appears that astrology never obtained a hold on the lower classes of the rural population. It has a very insignificant place in the folklore and healing arts of the peasantry.
10. Manilius, IV, 16.--For instance _CIL_, VI, 13782, the epitaph of a Syrian freedman: "L. Caecilius L. l(ibertus) Syrus, natus mense Maio hora noctis VI, die Mercuri, vixit ann. VI dies XXXIII, mortuus est IIII Kal. Iulias hora X, elatus est h(ora) III frequentia maxima." Cf. Bucheler, _Carm. epigr._, 1536: "Voluit hoc astrum meum."
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 onuchôn, Peri himatiôn], etc.
12. _Cat. codd. astr._, V, 1 (Rom.) p. 11, cod. 2, f. 34: [Greek: Peri tou ei echei megan rhina ho gennêtheis. Poteron pornê genêtai hê gennêtheisa.]
13. Varro, _De re rustica_, I, 37, 2; cf. Pliny, _Hist. nat._, XVI, 75, § 194. Olympiod, _Comm. in Alcibiad Plat._, p. 18 (ed. Creuzer, 1821): [Greek: Tous hieratikôs zôntas estin idein mê apokeiromenous auxousês tês selênês]. This applies to popular superstition rather than to astrology.
14. _CIL_, VI, 27140 = Bücheler, _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 Mély 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.