PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 167

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corpore, capillitio nigro et crispo, oculis magnis, statura mediocri, temperamento humidiore et frigidiore; occidentalis, nigros colore, raris corporibus, parvos, simplici et plano capillitio, reliquo corpore glabros et depiles, mediocri membrorum proportione, oculis nigricantibus, temperamento frigidiore et sicciore. Iupiter praedictis locis praesidens, cum orientalis est, candido colore corpora tingit, sed eleganti et florido, capillitio ornat mediocri, oculos efficit nigricantes et venusta magnitudine grandiusculos, gravitatem cum quadam coniunctam dignitate moribus inducit, crases crases] rcases B calido humidoque temperat; occidentalis, candido quidem, sed non eleganti colore inficit, capillitio rigido, aut calvitie vel anteriorem partem vel tantum sinciput deformat, mediocrem staturam et temperamenta humido redundantia procreat. Mars cum dominatur et orientalis est, validos gignit, rubedine albicante, decente corporis proceritate, oculis coe