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| The Old Man Opposes His Personal Experience to the Argument of Peter.
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Chapter VI.—The Old Man
Opposes His Personal Experience to the Argument of Peter.
“And the old man answered:1205
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6–9, there is a general correspondence in Recognitions,
ix. 32–37. The arrangement is quite different. The
old man’s representation, that the story he tells is that of a
friend, is peculiar to the Homilies.—R.] | ‘You have spoken truly,1206
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ms. adds “greatly,” and an
Epitome “great things.” | and yet, notwithstanding all your
incomparable demonstration, I am prevented from yielding assent by my
own personal knowledge. For I was an astrologer, and dwelt first
at Rome; and then forming a friendship with one who was of the family
of Cæsar, I ascertained accurately the genesis of himself and his
wife. And tracing their history, I find all the deeds actually
accomplished in exact accordance with their genesis, and therefore I
cannot yield to your argument. For the arrangement1207
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position of the stars at her birth. | of her genesis was that which makes women
commit adultery, fall in love with their own slaves, and perish abroad
in the water. And this actually took place; for she fell in love
with her own slave, and not being able to bear the reproach, she fled
with him, hurried to a foreign land, shared his bed, and perished in
the sea.’
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