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Chapter
XXXII.—Stubborn Facts.
“Now, old man, if you have any thing to say
in answer to these things, say on.” Then said the old
man:851
| 851 [To chaps.
32–37 a partial parallel is found in Homily XIV. 6–9.
The arrangement is quite different, and the details vary.—R.] | “You have most fully argued,
my son; but I, as I said at first, am prevented by my own consciousness
from according assent to all this incomparable statement of
yours. For I know both my own Genesis and
that of my wife, and I know that those things have happened which our
Genesis prescribed to each of us; and I cannot
now be withdrawn by words from those things which I have ascertained by
facts and deeds. In short, since I perceive that you are
excellently skilled in this sort of learning, hear the horoscope of my
wife, and you shall find the configuration whose issue has
occurred. For she had Mars with Venus above the centre, and the
Moon setting in the houses of Mars and the confines of Saturn.
Now this configuration leads women to be adulteresses, and to love
their own slaves, and to end their days in foreign travel and in
waters. And this has so come to pass. For she fell in love
with her slave, and fearing at once danger and reproach, she fled with
him, and going abroad, where she satisfied her love, she perished in
the sea.”
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