正文 5.3 Concerning the Arguments Which Nigidius the Mathematician Drew from the Potter’s Wheel, in th(2 / 2)

not twins, do they dare, having examined their constellations, to declare such things as pertain to that secret which no one can comprehend, and to attribute them to the precise moment of the birth of each individual? Now, if such predictions in connection with the natal hours of others who are not twins are to be vindicated on the ground that they are founded on the observation of more extended spaces in the heavens, whilst those very small moments of time which separated the births of twins, and correspond to minute portions of celestial space, are to be connected with trifling things about which the mathematicians are not wont to be consulted,–for who would consult them as to when he is to sit, when to walk abroad, when and on what he is to dine?

–how can we be justified in so speaking, when we can point out such manifold diversity both in the habits, doings, and destinies of twins?