PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Isaac Argyros, 〈Paraphrasis in Anonymum commentum in Quadripartitum〉

Madrid, UC-BH, cod. 122 · 124r

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morbos faciunt ex ⟨…⟩ νομῶν (from νομή) is left untranslated; Hübner p. 246, l. 1117 et impetiginibus aut squamis aut scrofulis aut fistulis et elephantiasi ac similibus, Sagittarius et Gemini ex casibus aut epilepsia. In extremisnovissimis autem gradibus dodecatemoriorum stellae constitutae immites precipue morbos et passiones operantur ex ⟨…⟩ λωβήσεων (from λώβησις: lesion) is left untranslated; Hübner p. 246, l. 1123 aut reumatismis ex quibus elephantiases et ut plurimum chiragrae et podagrae eveniunt.

His autem sic se habentibus, si nulla ex beneficis configurata fuerit cum maleficis causas efficientibus aut cum luminaribus in angulis constitutis incurabiles et gravissimae lesiones erunt atque etiam morbi, idem etiam erit quamvis figurentur, si tamen malefice fortes existentes super eas fuerint elevate; si autem et ipse precipuas habentes figurationes elevate fuerint super maleficas causam efficientes, tunc lesiones haud deformes erunt et vituperabiles morbique erunt mediocres et mitigabiles; est autem quando et facile ab eis liberant beneficis orientalibus existentibus.

Iupiter enim humanis auxiliis per divitias aut dignitates lesiones occultare consuevit ac morbos mitigare, cum Mercurio