PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 181

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Signa vero bicorporea faciunt varios, inconstantes, non sinentes se facile deprehendi, leves, instabiles, duplices, amatorios, versipelles, studiosos musices, ignavos, subito paratos, cito mutanes institutum. Fixa vero iustos, non amantes assentationum, stabiles, firmos, intelligentes, tolerantes, laboris cupidos, duros, continentes, tenaces simultatum, pertinaciter instantes, contentiosos, honorum cupidos, seditiosos, avaros, asperos, inflexibiles.

Positus vero orientales et horoscopus, faciei contuitus, significant liberales, simplices, sibi placentes, fortes, ingeniosos, veloces et apertos. Matutinae stationes et in medio coelo consultos, perseverantes, magnanimos, fideli memoria praeditos, perfectores eorum quae suscipiunt, immotos, robustos, non sinentes se facile decipi, firmos, prudentes, saevos, circumspectos, agentes aliquid, punientes, scientiis deditos. Antecessiones vero et occasus si