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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 174

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pulata est alicui nebulosarum stellarum in zodiaco, ut Cancri aut Pleiadum aut cuspidis Sagittarii aut aculei Scorpii aut comae Berenices, supra Leonem aut urnae Aquarii; et quando Mars aut Saturnus Luna existente in cardine ac infortunata succedunt, aut quando ante Solem ipsi in cardine ascendunt. Quando vero utrique lumini, vel in eodem signo vel oppositis, sunt familiares matutini Soli, vespertini Lunae, utrique oculo perniciem adferunt. Mars ab ictu aut pulsatione aut a ferro aut ab ustione, cum Mercurio iunctus nocet in palaestris aut gymnasis aut insidiis latronum, Saturnus vero per suffusiones aut frigus aut albuginem aut similia. Rursus quando Venus est in cardinibus dictis, maxime in occidente, iuncta Saturno aut eum adspiciens aut domicilia mutarunt, Mars vero super eam elevatur aut oppositus est, viri erunt steriles, mulieres vero edent abortus et foetus immaturos aut secando foetus ex utero periclitabuntur, maxime in Cancro, Virgine et Capricorno. Et