Lucian of Samosata, De astrologia, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 11

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[11] They say, moreover, that Tiresias, a Boeotian man, whose fame as touching prophecie is greatly cried up, declared, unto the Greeks that of the errant stars some are masle, some female, and that they do not engender like effects; wherefore they fable that Tiresias himself was bisexous and amphibious, now masle, now female.¹

De astrologia. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

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Astrology (English) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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[11] λέγουσιν δὲ Τειρεσίην ἄνδρα Βοιώτιον, τοῦ δὴ κλέος μαντοσύνης πέρι πολλὸν ἀείρεται, τοῦτον τὸν Τειρεσίην ἐν Ἕλλησιν εἰπεῖν ὅτι τῶν πλανεομένων ἀστέρων οἱ μὲν θήλεες οἱ δὲ ἄρρενες ἐόντες οὐκ ἴσα ἐκτελέουσιν· τῷ καί μιν διφυέα γενέσθαι καὶ ἀμφίβιον Τειρεσίην μυθολογέουσιν, ἄλλοτε μὲν θῆλυν ἄλλοτε δὲ ἄρρενα.

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Astrology

Here again we have “indepeniiont thought.” A widely variant explanation of the myth had previously been offered by Cephalio (cf. J. Malalas, Chron., p. 40, 1, in the Bonn ition), according to which Tiresias was a student of medicine who concerned himself with the mysteries of parturition.

Lucian of Samosata De astrologia 11

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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