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But if this stellar force affects
the heavens now in one way and now in another,
how is it possible for this force to operate alike on
all persons who are born at the same time, in view
of the fact that they are born under vastly different
skies? In those places in which we live the Dogstar rises after the solstice,1 in fact, several days
later. But among the Troglodytes, we read, it sets
before the solstice. Hence if we should now admit
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that some stellar influence affects persons who are
born upon the earth, then it must be conceded that
all persons born at the same time may have different
natures owing to the differences in their horoscopes.
This is a conclusion by no means agreeable to the
astrologers; for they insist that all persons born at
the same time, regardless of the place of birth, are
born to the same fate.
1 The summer solstice, on June 22nd.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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