PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 190

Facsimile

rentes, rapaces, instabiles, leves, cito mutantes proposita, praecipites, inconstantes, incircumspectos, ingratos, turbulentos, attonitos, non frustra conantes, percussores, querulos, profusionum amantes, fatuos, inaequabiliter et sine regula viventes, et furiosos.

Iupiter cum Venere

Familiaritas vero cum Venere in locis laudatis facit amantes mundiciem, suaviter fruentes bonis, nitidos, artium, spectaculorum studiorum, musices studiosos, delicatos, simplices, beneficos, redarguentes alios, non astutos, religi[gi]osos, deditos caeremoniis et choris, prudentes, propensos ad amorem et honestam venerem, splendidos, gratos, liberales, studiosos literarum, dextre iudicantes, moderatos, modeste venereos, contentiosos, pios, iustos, honorum et gloriae cupidos, et in summa honestos et laudatos. At in locis distortis, epularum amantes, delicatos, effoeminatos, saltatores,