astrologers

Reading notes

• The Annals §3.22 the Chaldeans

  Astrologers (often called 'Chaldeans' after Babylonia); consulting them about the emperor's life or death was treason.

• The Histories §2.66 astrologers

  The mathematici, practitioners of astrology and horoscopy, repeatedly expelled from Italy as politically dangerous; Vitellius drove them out again.