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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 189

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gnitudine animi fastum, pro religione superstitionem, pro verecundia timiditatem, pro gravitate tumorem, pro candore stoliditatem, pro nitore voluptates, pro cura magnarum rerum stuporem, pro liberalitate negligentiam, sic et caetera degenerant.

Iupiter cum Marte

Familiaritas vero cum Marte in locis laudatis facit asperos, pugnaces, militares, idoneos gubernationi, concitatos, impatientes servitutis, fervidos, periculis se obiicientes, industrios, linguae libertate utentes, redarguentes alios, effectores eorum quae suscipiunt, contentiosos, gnavos in imperiis, acres, insidiatores, aequitatis amantes, viriles, aegre credentes, magnanimos, honorum cupidos, iracundos, dextre iudicantes et non aberrantes. Sed in locis distortis, contumeliosos, sui negligentes, crudeles, implacabiles, seditiosos, rixatores, non aggregantes se communibus moribus, calumniatores, suspicaces, prerogativas que