Re: [HM] Augustine Quote on Mathematicians

Barry Cipra (cipra@microassist.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:53:37 -0600

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For anyone who's interested, here's the key sentence, in Latin, from De
Genesi ad litteram, in an 1836 edition of St. Augustine's Opera Omnia:

Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie
divinantium, maxime dicentes vera, cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum
irretiant.

Barry Cipra
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