Lucius Tarutius Firmanus

Lucius Tarrutius (also Tarutius and Taruntius ) from Firmum (hence Lucius Tarrutius Firmanus ) was a Roman philosopher and astrologer of the 1st century BC He was a friend of both the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro and Marcus Tullius Cicero.

He created the horoscope of Romulus for Varro and calculated the founding date of Rome, from which he derived his further fate. Thus Romulus was ( BC July 24 772 ), begotten on 23 Choiak the Egyptian calendar in the first year of the second Olympics in the third hour of the day during a total solar eclipse on 21 Toth in the 2nd year of 2. Olympiad ( ie March 21 771 BC), born. The city of Rome was founded on 9 Pharmouthi 2 to 3 hour of the day, the year of its foundation by Tarrutius is not known. Probably it is the first year of the sixth Olympiad, the date ie October 4 754 BC Horoscope founded on the city of Rome is narrated by Solinus.

The lunar crater Taruntius is named after him.

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  • Cicero de divinatione 2.98 f
  • Plutarch Romulus 12.3-6
  • Marcus Manilius astronomica 4,773
  • Solinus de mirabilibus mundi 1.18
  • John Lydos de mensibus 1.14
Thout Lunar craters Taruntius (crater) John the Lydian Wilhelm Kroll Anthony Grafton Noel Swerdlow
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