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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.

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