place
Chaldaea (the Chaldeans)
the Chaldeans
also: Chaldaei, Chaldeans
People of Babylonia named (Cicero notes) from their nation not their art, credited with deriving from long observation of the stars a knowledge of each man's fate and nativity; later excelling in astral knowledge in Syria.
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.2 the Chaldeans
Babylonian astrologers, named (Cicero notes) from their nation, not their art. They were the stock ancient authority for casting horoscopes from the stars at one's birth.