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Tis chiefly from the verses of Homer the poet and of Hesiod that we may learn that antiquity holdeth with the astrologers. When he describeth the chain of Jupiter[*] and the kine of the Sun, which I con-

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ceive to be daies,[*] and the cities that Vulcan made upon the shield, and the choir, and the vineyard[*] ... All that he hath said of Venus and of Mars his passion, is also manifestly composed from no other source than this science. Indeed, it is the conjunction of Venus and Mars that createth the poetry of Homer. And in other verses he distinguished the duties of each, saying unto Venus,
Nay, be it thine to control the delightsome duties of wedlock,
and anent those of warfare,
These shall all be the care of impetuous Mars and Minerva.
Iliad, V, 429, 430.

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