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Qui uero
in media se, ut praedicant, fatorum misere pignora
natales inquirunt et primam aeui horam omnium
annorum habent nuntiam, quo ierint motu sidera,
in quas discucurrerint partes, contrane deus steterit,
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an placidus adfulserit sol; an plenam lucem, an
initia surgentis acceperit, an abdiderit in noctem
obscurum caput luna; Saturnus nascentem, an ad
bella Mars militem, an negotiosum in quaestus Mercurius
exceperit, an blanda adnuerit nascenti Venus,
an ex humili in sublime Iuppiter tulerit aestimant:
tot circa unum caput tumultuantis deos!
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