PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 187

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tes se communibus opinionibus, peculiares sibi opiniones excogitantes, fatidicos, superstitiosos, sacrificiis deditos, sacrificulos, fanaticos, sacris servientes, castos, verecundos, reverentes alios, studiosos, fidos in amicitia, stabiles, continentes, sagaces, cautos, querulos, male suspicantes de mulieribus et zelotypos. In locis vero distortis, falaces, impudicos, contaminantes se flagitiosis libidinibus, negligentes, immundos in concubitu, libidinosos, insidiantes mulieribus et maxime cognatis, petulantes, infames, furenter ruentes in venerem, osores mundiciei, subsannatores, obtrectatores, ebriosos, superstitiosos, adulteros, incitantes et incitati ad incestos concubitus non solum naturales, sed etiam contra naturam, appetentes, seniles, flagitiosos et inconcessos ferinos concubitus, impios, dei contemptores, sacrorum derisores, infidos, calumniosos, veneficos, impostores.

Saturnus cum Mercurio

Familiaritas cum Mercurio in locis laudatis facit curiosos scrutatores, disse