PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Isaac Argyros, 〈Paraphrasis in Anonymum commentum in Quadripartitum〉

Madrid, UC-BH, cod. 122 · 122r

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Hec cum ita se habeant, quando cum Sol etiam fuerit figurata luminariaque ac Venus ipsam masculescent, et Luna fuerit apocrustica, malefice in gradibus, qui postea ascendunt deferentur, viri quidem abscisi et membris genitalibus oblaesi efficiuntur et maxime in Ariete et Leone et Scorpione, Capricorno et Aquario, mulieres vero partus expertes et steriles redduntur, interdum autem neque quoad himen oculorum illesi huiusmodi permanent illesi.

Impediti autem sunt lingua et balbi aut vix loquentes fiunt, quicunque Saturnum et Mercurium una cum Sole in predictis