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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 192

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plinae, philosophos, dignitatem mag[g]ni facientes. At in locis contrariis, stolidos, hallucinantes, aberrantes, despectos, attonitos, fanaticos, nugatores, lividos, arrogantes sibi sapientiam, incircumspectos, iactabundos, artium exercitia tentantes, magos, trepidantes, consternatos, multa inquirentes, memores, doctrinis deditos, in voluptatibus mundiciem amantes.

⟨III.23⟩ Mars

Mars cum solus dominatur moribus in locis laudatis, facit generosos, gubernationi idoneos, iracundos, divitias appetentes, vorantes, robustos, periculis se obiicientes, pericula spernentes, non patientes servitutis, negligentes sui, pervicaces, vehementes, morosos, contemptores, tyrannicos, manu promptos, iracundos, gubernatores. At in locis contrariis, crudeles, iniustos, sanguinis avidos, turbulentos, sumptuosos, clamatores, percussores, praecipites, ebriosos, raptores, facinorosos,