Among the sins that Malmesbury imputed to him was the study of Julius Firmicus Maternus, a late Roman astrologer, every morning, which to Malmesbury meant that Gerard was a sorcerer.

According to Julius Firmicus Maternus of the fourth century, this play was re-enacted each year by worshippers who

Matheseos Libri VIII by Firmicus Maternus ( Park Ridge, 1975 ).

Matheseos Libri VIII by Firmicus Maternus, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Park Ridge, Noyes Press, 1975.

This work is referred to by Firmicus Maternus, who about 336 speaks of the prudentissimus Achilles in his Matheseos libri ( Math.

The outer rim of Firmicus has undergone some erosion, particularly along the northern rim where it is overlain by a pair of small craterlets.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Firmicus.

* The Christian astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus ( fourth century ), after whom the crater is named.

However, Theodor Mommsen has shown that the Mathesis was composed in the year 336 and not in 354 as was formerly held, thus making it an earlier work than De errore profanarum religionum, and could have been written prior to Firmicus ' conversion to Christianity.

The source for this visit, Julius Firmicus Maternus, does not give a reason for this but the quick movement and the danger involved in crossing the channel in the dangerous winter months, suggests it was in response to a military emergency of some kind, possibly to repel the Picts and Scots.

* Julius Firmicus Maternus writes De erroribus profanarum religionum.

* Julius Firmicus Maternus makes the first recorded observation of solar prominences, during an annular eclipse ( July 17 ).

Julius Firmicus Maternus, who wrote in the time of Constantine, exhibits so many points of resemblance with the work of Manilius that he must either have used him or have followed some work that Manilius also followed.

* edition of Julius Firmicus Maternus ' De Errore Profanarum Religionum ( 1856 )

Julius Firmicus Maternus was a Christian Latin writer and notable astrologer, who lived in the reign of Constantine I and his successors.

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Other ancient writers who described the hair of the Thracians as red include Hecataeus of Miletus, Galen, Clement of Alexandria, and Julius Firmicus Maternus.

* Julius Firmicus Maternus, a 4th century astrologer and writer on the subject of profane religions.

His body was found in an orchard, next to a book of " curious arts ", his copy of Julius Firmicus.

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" Firmicus Maternus: Un astrologue converti au christianisme ou la rhétorique du rejet sans appel ," in D. Tollet ( ed ), La religion que j ' ai quittée ( Paris, 2007 ), 39-63.

De errore profanarum religionum provides such a sharp contrast with Firmicus ' book on astrology ( commonly referred to as the Mathesis ), that the two works have sometimes been attributed to different writers.

According to Firmicus Maternus ( 4th century ), the system of horoscopic astrology was given early on to an Egyptian pharaoh named Nechepso and his priest Petosiris.

Mare Undarum ( the " sea of waves ") is an uneven lunar mare located just north of Mare Spumans on the lunar near side, between the crater Firmicus and the eastern limb.

It is southwest of the crater Firmicus, and north of Condon.

Firmicus is a lunar crater that lies in the eastern part of the Moon's near side, so that from Earth it appears oval in shape due to foreshortening.

The most notable aspect of Firmicus is the dark, flat floor.

This connection with dreams is quite ancient, and references to the ninth house in this capacity can be found in Firmicus and in Paulus Alexandrinus.

Lacus Perseverantiae ( Latin for " Perseverance ") is a small lunar mare extending westward from the northwestern exterior of the crater Firmicus, with smaller extensions to the northeast and northwest at the eastern terminus.

* Firmicus Maternus.

The lunar crater Firmicus was named in his honour.

* Béatrice Caseau, " Firmicus Maternus: Un astrologue converti au christianisme ou la rhétorique du rejet sans appel ," in La religion que j ' ai quittée, éd.

Somewhat closer to this crater are Tebbutt to the west, and Firmicus to the east-southeast.

It lies southeast of Mare Crisium, and north-northeast of the larger crater Firmicus.

It lies along the southern shore of the Mare Undarum, to the southeast of the crater Firmicus.

James Mays, however, says that the failure to mention Hosea's paternity this is " hardly an implication " of Gomer's adultery.

Sidbury says some trials had a few measures to prevent abuses, such as an appointed attorney, but they were " hardly ' fair '".

As Hans Mayer says, " the Muslim inhabitants of the Latin Kingdom hardly ever appear in the Latin chronicles ", so information on their role in society is difficult to find.

Citing numerous instances of Pytheas apparently being far off the mark on details concening known regions, he says: " however, any man who has told such great falsehoods about the known regions would hardly, I imagine, be able to tell the truth about places that are not known to anybody.

This could conflict with Bede's saintly portrayal of Oswald, since an aggressive war could hardly qualify as a just war, perhaps explaining why Bede is silent on the cause of the war — he says only that Oswald died " fighting for his fatherland "— as well as his failure to mention other offensive warfare Oswald is presumed to have engaged in between Heavenfield and Maserfield.

Davidson says that " it would hardly be surprising if strange legends grew up about such women, who must have been kept apart from their kind due to their gruesome duties.

He says he hardly notices the weight any more.

In the film version, the craft are grey and cubic, a continuation of the emphasis on bureaucracy in the Vogons ' conception: " Douglas's description of the Vogon ships hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't to these Vogon ships which are these massive concrete tower blocks, with hardly any windows, they just have a few doors around the base ," says Joel Collins.

Kinsley says three Mahavidyas – Kali, Tara and Chhinnamasta — are prominent among Mahavidya depictions and lists, though Chhinnamasta hardly has an independent existence outside the group.

Socrates says to him testily that at his age, Charmides can hardly be expected to understand temperance ( 162e ).

As Zaslaw says, this " demonstrates that symphony was performed, for Mozart would hardly have gone to the trouble of adding the clarinets and rewriting the flutes and oboes to accommodate them, had he not had a specific performance in view.

At the peak of their argument, Stewart says to Remy, " You'd hardly call this a marriage wouldn't you?

Þórr shows off his strength, but Hymir taunts him and says that he could hardly be called strong if Þórr couldn't break Hymir's chalice.

The Saxons were routed: the night alone prevented their destruction by the infuriated invaders, by the favour of which, Speed says, the king hardly escaped.

It can hardly be doubted, says Gardiner, that, if he had lived till the following summer, he would have shared in Raleigh's ruin.

As he says " Human beings are highly predictable as physico-chemical systems, less predictable as living bodies, much less so as conscious beings and hardly at all as self aware persons.

So long as his father was alive, Wimund need hardly " himself to be the son of the earl of Moray and that he was deprived of the inheritance of his fathers by the king of Scotland " as William says.

She says in her blog's introduction, " My voice hardly changes even if I breathe in the helium gas .".

" However, he also says that Lamerton was not a good national captain, " he was perhaps over-conscientious and a worrier, and hardly spoke the same language as many of the team ; it affected his play.

The suggestion that the body is Blair's remains when Harriet Jones says that she is " hardly one of the babes ", a reference to the large number of female Labour Party MPs who entered the House of Commons in Labour's 1997 general election victory, who were dubbed " Blair's Babes " by the British media.

The explicit references bring in the double meaning: first, in Act IV, when sparring with De Guiche over the loss of his ( de Guiche's ) white sash, he says, " I hardly think King Henry would have doffed his white panache in any danger.

Of the 91st book Niebuhr says " repetitions are here so frequent in the small compass of four pages and the prolixity so great, that we should hardly believe it to belong to Livy ...." Niebuhr accounts for the decline by supposing " the writer has grown old and become loquacious ...," going so far as to conjecture that the later books were lost because copyists refused to copy such low-quality work.

Eaton discussed one of the cases in Goel's list of destroyed temples: “ an inscription dated 1455, found over the doorway of a tomb-shrine in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh ” which mentions “ the destruction of a Hindu temple by one Abdullah Shah Changal during the reign of Raja Bhoja, a renowned Paramara king who had ruled over the region from 1010 to 1053 ” Eaton says that the inscription is “ hardly contemporary ” and “ presents a richly textured legend elaborated over many generations of oral transmission until 1455 ”.

The contra-bass sordun, he says, hardly half the length of the contra-fagotto, is yet practically of the same pitch, which is astonishing since the bore is only double once upon itself as in the fagotto.