person
Lucius Tarutius Firmanus
Tarutius
also: Tarutius, L. Tarutius Firmanus, Lucius Tarutius of Firmum
A friend of Cicero and Varro, learned in Chaldean astrology, who cast a horoscope for the city of Rome itself. Cicero ridicules him for assigning a birthday and astral fate to bricks and mortar.