PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 194

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monstrosis, insidiatores, periuros, facile impingentes, stultos, amantes ornatus, feroces, turpia paciscentes, et impudicos.

Mars cum Mercurio

Familiaritas cum Mercurio in laudatis locis, facit callidos in excogitandis stratagematis, timidos, violentos, inconstantes, praemetientes pericula, versutos, gnavos, sophisticos, laboriosos, impostores, loquaces, invasores, dolosos, mobiles, captiosos, malis artificiis circumvenientes alios, celeriter invenientes consilia, deceptores, simulatores, insidiatores, malitiosos, curiosos, sedulos, non habentes irritos impetus, facile similium benevolentiam conciliantes et tuentes, inimicis nocentes, amicis benefacientes. At in locis distortis, sumptuosos, avaros, crudeles, pericula temere adeuntes, audaces, mutantes propositum, perculsos, consternatos, mendaces, fures, impios, periuros, invasores, seditiosos, incendiarios, in theatris seditiones mo