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Boethus of Sidon (the Stoic)
Boethus the Stoic
also: Boethus, Boëthus Stoicus, Boethus the Stoic
A Stoic philosopher and astronomer who sought the natural causes of weather-signs. Cicero names him (with Posidonius) as having explained the rationale of weather-prediction, unlike the haruspices.