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1. He plunked down a copy of Stadius‘ Ephemerides on one end of the scroll so that it would not curl back

2. Eleven days later, on the evening of July 1, 1566, Nostradamus gave one more fond look to his study, and pulled out the Ephemerides book from the desk where Roche had left it and wrote on it ―Hic prope mors es,‖ which, in Latin, means ―Death is close at hand