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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 170

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co. Quartus a bruma ad aequinoctium vernum, flavescentes, iusta magnitudine et decenti, capillitio rigido, nudo corpore et depili, affluentes humore frigido producit. Particulatim vero figuris describuntur humanis, sive in zodiaco consistant sive extra zodiacum versentur, eleganti et iusta proportione corpora aptant et componunt; at signa alienarum figurarum, vitiant et deformant ea, pro sua qualibet nativa vi et proprietate, et aliqua ex parte ea membra, quibus praesident sibi conformant, vel magnitudine vel parvitate vel robore vel imbecillitate vel elegantia. Magnitudine quidem, ut exempli gratia, Leo, Virgo et Sagittarius; parvitate, Pisces, Cancer et Capricornus. Sic anteriores et superiores partes Arietis, Capricorni et Leonis, firmiora; inferiores et posteriores eorundem signorum, imbecilliora. Contra, Sagitarii, Scorpii et Geminorum anteriores partes, imbecilliora; posteriores validiora efficiunt corpora. Eodemmodo, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, modera