09-18-2014, 08:40 AM
Dan wrote:
Augstus burned all prophecies that foretold doom or disorder and the Aeneid which survives in full gives openly denies that Rome had any limits in time.
Well I guess Augutus missed the one by Varro which Censorinus is aware of. Then there is Claudian, De Bell. Get., V, 265; Sidonius Apollinaris, Paneg., V, 357; and Cœlius Rhodiginus, XXVII, 8.
Dan wrote:
If there was a prophecy it was much later; so you shouldn't assume everyone or even large numbers of people believed it.
The Pythagorean system I have been researching for the last six years has been designed for a period of 1200 years, so I am not assuming anything. I have more evidence to work with that is not be known to you.
Dan wrote:
The Empire itself was likely majority Christian in Stilchio's time anyway so why should Christians care about a very recent prophecy of doom told by pagans who didn't like them?
It was the pagans who were worried. The primary sources state this. For me it explains why the pagans went out with a whimper, they knew their time was up.
Augstus burned all prophecies that foretold doom or disorder and the Aeneid which survives in full gives openly denies that Rome had any limits in time.
Well I guess Augutus missed the one by Varro which Censorinus is aware of. Then there is Claudian, De Bell. Get., V, 265; Sidonius Apollinaris, Paneg., V, 357; and Cœlius Rhodiginus, XXVII, 8.
Dan wrote:
If there was a prophecy it was much later; so you shouldn't assume everyone or even large numbers of people believed it.
The Pythagorean system I have been researching for the last six years has been designed for a period of 1200 years, so I am not assuming anything. I have more evidence to work with that is not be known to you.
Dan wrote:
The Empire itself was likely majority Christian in Stilchio's time anyway so why should Christians care about a very recent prophecy of doom told by pagans who didn't like them?
It was the pagans who were worried. The primary sources state this. For me it explains why the pagans went out with a whimper, they knew their time was up.
