Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum Liber Quartus Decimus, I, section 18

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[18] Constare quippe inter astrologos dicebat, stellas istas quas “erraticas” dicerent, [p. 10] quae esse omnium rerum fatales viderentur, infinito prope et innumerabili numero annorum ad eundem locum, cum eodem abitu simul omnes reverti ¹ unde ² profectae sunt, ut neque ullus observationis tenor neque memoriae ulla effigies litterarum ³ tanto aevo potuerint edurare.

1 reverti (redire, etc.) added by J. F. Gronov and others after sunt; reverti unde olim omnes, Skutsch.

2 unde added by Vogel.

3 litterarum deleted by Skutsch.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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