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on Aquinas.

[2566] _Etymol._, VIII, 11, 15-17; _Differentiarum_, II, 14.

[2567] Indeed, _Differentiarum_, II, 39, he defines astrology as he had astronomy in _Etymol._, III, 27. In _Etymol._, III, 25, he ascribes the invention of astronomy to the Egyptians and that of astrology to the Chaldeans.

[2568] Caps. 14 and 27.

[2569] _De nat. rer._, III, 4; PL 83, 968.

[2570] _Ibid._, XIX, 2.

[2571] _Ibid._, XXII, 2-3.

[2572] _Ibid._, IX, 1-2.

[2573] _Ibid._, XXVI, 15; _Etymol._, III, 71, 16.

[2574] _Etymol._, XIV, 5, “vim sideris.”

[2575] _Ibid._, IX, 2, “secundum diversitatem enim coeli.”

[2576] _Ibid._, IV, 13, 4.

[2577] _De nat. rerum_, XVIII, 5-7.

[2578] _History of the Anglo-Saxons_, III, 403.

[2579] _Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought_, 1884, p. 20; p. 18 in 1920 edition.

[2580] Migne, PL 90, 293-4.

[2581] A few MSS, chiefly from France, earlier than the 12th century, are: BN 5543, 9th century; BN 15685, 9th century; BN nouv. acq. 1612, 1615, and 1632, all 9th or 10th century; Amiens 222, 9th century; Cambrai 925, 9th century; Ivrea 3, 9th century; Ivrea 6, 10th century; Berlin 128, 8-9th century; Berlin 130, 9-10th century; CLM 18158, 11th century; CLM 21557, 11th century.

I have not noted the MSS of Bede in the British Museum and Bodleian collections.

[2582] PL 90, 187-278; the text occupies but a small portion of these columns.

[2583] _Ibid._, Cap. 14.

[2584] _Ibid._, Cap. 24.

[2585] _Ibid._, Cap. 25.

[2586] _In Samuelem prophetam allegorica expositio_, IV, 7; PL 91, 701.

[2587] _De tonitruis libellus ad Herefridum_, PL 90, 609-14.

[2588] See below,