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In the last instalment of the catalogus codicum astrologorum Graecorum, vol. VIII part iv (1922), Mr Cumont publishes from cod. Paris. Gr. 2425 two fragments of hexameter verse, one of three lines and the other of seven or eight, which he attributes1, perhaps rightly, to Dorotheus of Sidon, on whose remains I have written in C.Q. 1908 pp. 47–61 and 1911 pp. 249 sq. The scribe, who makes a practice of suppressing names, assigns the shorter piece to no author, and the longer he introduces with the circumlocution Фησί τις τν σοФν.
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page 53 note 1 On p. 118, n. I, Mr Cumont says that the verses printed in C.C.A.G. I pp. 108–13 ‘Dorothei esse uidentur’. I showed in C.Q. 1908 p. 62 that this is on metrical grounds impossible.
page 53 note 2 The text says, p. 221 10, that at the time of birth the 24th degree of Aquarius was on the eastern horizon and the 6th degree of Sagittarius in the mid-heaven. If this measurement of the arc is not quite correct for the latitude of Thebes at the date, whatever it was, of this nativity, it is very nearly so: Mr Cumont's substitution of TαύρѰ for Tοξγη, with the note ‘si horoscopus est in Aquario, medium caelum est in Tauro’, is an extraordinary blunder, and so is his conjecture ύπεργεν for ύπογεον at p. 222 5.