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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 188

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rentes de legibus et de natura, arcanorum conscios, miracula facientes, deceptores, in diem viventes, sagaces, industrios, solertes, acerbos, diligentes, sobrios, sedulos, laborum cupidos, feliciter conantes. In locis vero distortis, hallucinantes, nugatores, tenaces simultatum, immisericordes, erumnosos, infestos suis, invidos, tristes, noctu vagantes, insidiatores, proditores, crudeles, fures, magos, veneficos, falsarios, praestigiatores, non habentes prosperos successus, sed frustra conantes.

⟨III.22⟩ Iupiter

Iupiter solus dominus in locis laudatis, facit magnanimos, beneficos, religiosos, honorem aliis tribuentes, fruentes bonis, humanos, splendidos, liberales, iustos, magna curantes, graves, sua agentes, misericordes, foecundos, prudentes, amantes cognatorum, gubernatores. In locis vero distortis ac sordidioribus, similem speciem efficit, sed sordidius et obscurius et dilutius, ut pro ma