^{page 17 note 1} vv. 522–5 ‘turn, nequa futuri | spes saltern trepidas mentes leuet, addita fati | peioris manifesta fides, superique minaces | prodigiis terras inplerunt, aethera, pontum.’

^{page 17 note 2} vv. 640–1 ‘quem non stellarum Aegyptia 4599.4 Memphis | aequaret uisu numerisque sequentibus (so Bentley, MSS. mouentibus) astra.’

^{page 17 note 3} Housman's Astronomical Appendix to his edition, p. 326.

^{page 17 note 4} Mars was the guardian of Scorpio (Housman's edition of Manilius ii, p. xvi, and Manil. 2. 443 ‘pugnax Mauorti Scorpios haeret’). Cf. id. 4. 217–21 ‘Scorpios armata uiolenta cuspide cauda | …in bellum ardentes animos et Martia castra | efficit.’

^{page 18 note 1} Loc. cit., p. 326.

^{page 18 note 2} Loc. cit., p. 327.

^{page 18 note 3} Boll, , Sphaera, p. 362Google Scholar.

^{page 18 note 4} See also Bouché-Leclerq, , L'Astrologie grecque, Paris, 1899, p. 280Google Scholar.

^{page 19 note 1} Manil. 2.948 ‘unus in occasu locus est super’.

^{page 19 note 2} Cat. Cod. Astr. Graec., vol. viii, pt. iv, Brussels, 1921, p. 158Google Scholar.

^{page 19 note 3} 2. 867–5, 871–2.

^{page 19 note 4} Op. cit., p. 154.

^{page 19 note 5} Op. cit., p. 161.

^{page 19 note 6} Math. 2. 17.

^{page 19 note 7} Cambridge, 1940.

^{page 19 note 8} Op. cit., pp. 325–6.

^{page 20 note 1} See a careful discussion of this in Housman's edition of Manilius III, pp. xiii–xx.

^{page 20 note 2} Quoted on pp. xxvii–xxviii of Housman's edition of Manilius II as follows: οἷον (ἔσται γ⋯ρ σαφ⋯ς ⋯π⋯ παραδε⋯γματος) Καρκίνου ὡροσκοπο⋯ντος μεσουρανεῖ μ⋯ν Κρι⋯ς, δὺνει δ⋯ Αἰγ⋯κερως, ὑπ⋯ γ⋯ν δ⋯ ⋯στι Ζυγ⋯ς (πρ⋯ς ⋯στρ. 12 sq.).

^{page 20 note 3} Op. cit., p. xxx.

^{page 20 note 4} Firm. Math. 2. 2. 5, etc.

^{page 20 note 5} See my edition of Lucan I (cit. supra), p. 121.

^{page 20 note 6} Vitruu. 9. 6. 2.

^{page 21 note 1} Edition of Lucan, p. 326.

^{page 21 note 2} Firm. Math. 2. 19. 7 ‘qui locus Mala Fortuna appellatur ob hoc quia locus est Martis.’

^{page 21 note 3} Id. 3. 3. 14 ‘locus enim, id est sextus, habet malitiae propriam praerogatiuam, et, quaecumque Stella in ipso loco fuerit, id est in sexto, ad decernenda mala maximas uires ex loci uitio semper mutuabitur.’

^{page 21 note 4} Id. 13.

^{page 21 note 5} Id. 2. 19. 7 ‘sed interdum loci ipsius malitia subleuatur, si in eo loco Stella collocata, alia Stella in decimo ab horoscopo loco inuenta prospera fuerit radiatione coniuncta.’

^{page 21 note 6} Id. 3. 2. 21 ‘quod si beniuola stella sic positum per noctem saltem Saturnum bona radiatione respexit, id est Iouis aut Veneris specialiter,… ex aliqua parte largitur.’

^{page 21 note 7} Manil. 4. 217–21 cit. supra.

^{page 21 note 8} Id. 2. 871–5.

^{page 21 note 9} ‘iam Phoebe toto fratrem cum redderet ore | terrarum subita percussa expalluit umbra.’

^{page 21 note 10} Manil. 2. 211–12.

^{page 21 note 11} Id. 2. 572–3 ‘sed plerumque manent inimica tertia quaeque | lege, in transuersum uultu defixa maligno.’

^{page 21 note 12} See Housman's edition of Manilius II, p. xviii.

^{page 21 note 13} Ibid., pp. xx–xxi.

^{page 22 note 1} In acquiring this knowledge he was more fortunate than Johann Kepler, who tried to test the accuracy of this passage and obtained only a negative conclusion. See Boll, , Sphaera, p. 362Google Scholar n. 1.

^{page 22 note 2} The substance of this paper was communicated to the Cambridge Philological Society on 23 February 1939, and an abstract of it appeared in the Cambridge University Reporter of 14 March of that year, p. 711.