PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 186

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rannicos, avaros, infestos civibus rixatores, memores offensionum, ex abdito mala struentes, invasores, impatientes, torvos, molestos, gloriosos, maleficos, iniustos, non cedentes aliorum iudiciis, immanes, inflexibiles, pertinaces, non se ingerentes, caute etiam se recipientes, industrios, non cedentes, non habentes irritos impetus. In distortis locis, raptores, praedones, adulteratores, erumnosos, turpia lucra sectantes, nefarios, inhumanos, contumeliosos, insidiatores, fures, periuros, homicidia molientes, inconcessa vorantes, maleficos, homicidas, veneficos, impios, sacrilegos, sepulchrorum effossores et omnino sceleratos.

Saturnus cum Venere

Familiaritas cum Venere in locis minus vituperandis, facit osores mulierum, cupidos dominationis, amantes solitudinum, insuaves in congressibus, ambitiosos, apparatus aspernantes, negligentes elegantiae, invidos, tetricos, insuaves ad venerem, non aggregan