If some things fall out differently from what was foretold, that is due to the deceit of men that speak what they know not: calling into contempt a science to which past and present alike bear a glorious testimony" (Ann.

vi, 22).
(20) Manili Astronomicon Liber II, ed.

H.W.Garrod, Oxford, 1911, p.

lxix, and II, ll.

84-86.
(21) Pliny: Natural History, Bk.