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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 176

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bus, maxime si Luna sit in nodis aut flexibus et in signis noxiis, ut Ariete, Tauro, Cancro, Scorpio, Capricorno, fiunt gibbi aut mutilationes aut claudicationes aut paralyses; ac si cum luminibus sint malefici planetae, statim a nativitate has laesiones adferunt, sin autem sint malefici in medio coeli, supra luminaria et longitudine inter se distent, accident laesiones a magnis periculis, lapsuum ex alto aut latrociniis aut ferarum morsibus. Nam cum Mars dominatur, accident laesiones per ignem aut fient vulnera in rixis aut inter latrones; cum Saturnus dominatur, fient lapsus, naufragia, spasmi. Plerunque vero fiunt laesiones cum Luna est in signis tropicis aut aequinoctialibus, in vere vitiligo, in aestate impetigines, in autumno lepra, in hyeme lenticulae. Haec accidunt cum in dicto positu malefici adspiciunt contrario adspectu, vespertini Solem, matutini Lunam. Et universaliter Saturnus ventres