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Work C.2.17

Porphyry (?)
Introductio in Claudii Ptolemaei opus de effectibus astrorum (tr. Hieronymus Wolf)

Text ‘(ed. Basel 1559) Porphyrii philosophi introductio in Claudii Ptolemaei opus de effectibus astrorum. Praefatio. Quia doctrinam de temperatura coelestium corporum et effectuum genera per illam doctrinam observata — Venus et Mercurius 14, 7 ante et totidem post.’

Origin Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὴν Ἀποτελεσματικὴν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου (‘Introduction to Ptolemy’s Apotelesmata’) attributed to Porphyry (late third century A.D.), translated by Hieronymus Wolf and published by him, together with the Greek text, in 1559.

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Ed. The Greek text has been published by E. Boer and S. Weinstock in Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum, eds F. Cumont, F. Boll, et al., 20 vols, Bruxelles, 1898-1953, V.4 (1940), 187-228, and translated into English by J. Holden, Porphyry the Philosopher: Introduction to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos and Serapio of Alexandria: Astrological Definitions, Tempe (Ar), 2009.

EDS

Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1559, sig. 181-204