illud sane non solum culpabile in viro fuit, sed peremptorium, quod mathematicos quondam de vitae fine consuluit, urbium cives Africanarum, quorum, ut est regio, sic animus ardentior;
There was indeed one thing about him which was not merely blameworthy but fatal: he once consulted astrologers on the subject of his death; they were citizens of African towns, men whose mind, like their climate, is over-fervid.
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