Note 335 — Chapter XIX · THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
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Suet. Tib. 36. The mathematici are strictly the astrologers whose science was called μάθησις. Cf. the title of Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos libri. The governmental attempt to suppress the mathematici was a total failure, but the law’s attitude toward them may be seen from the rescript of Diocletian (294 C.E.): ars mathematica damnabilis interdicta est (Cod. Just. IX. xviii. 2).