PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 185

Facsimile

in locis bonis, facit bonos, senes singulari reverentia colentes, placidos, honeste sentientes, opitulatores, sine malevolentia, cautos, parcos, magnanimos, officiosos, cordatos, amantes suorum, mites, intelligentes, tolerantes, sapientia quadam moderantes officia. In contrariis locis, ineptos, furiosos, metuentes turbam, superstitiosos, sacrificulos, occulta prodentes, suspicaces, negligentes liberorum et amicorum, latebrarum amantes, hebetes, diffidentes, inepte splendidos, virulentos, simulatores, frustra conantes, ambitiosos, mutabiles, stolidos et serviles.

Saturnus cum Marte

Familiaritas vero cum Marte, in locis minus vituperandis facit negligentes, laboriosos, libere loquentes, turbulentos, audaciam prae se ferentes et tamen timidos, tetricos, immisericordes, despicientes alios, asperos, bellicosos, periculorum contemptores, tumultuosos, dolosos, insidiatores, tenaces simultatum nemini supplices, seditiosos, ty