PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 193

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truculentos, mota mente, furiosos, suis inimicos, impios.

Mars cum Venere

Familiaritas cum Venere in laudatis locis facit hilares, faciles, sodalitiorum amantes, deliciis fruentes, laetos, iocosos, incautos, musicos, saltatores, amatorios, amantes liberorum, histriones, fruentes voluptatibus, facientes magnos apparatus, salaces, pronos quidem ad libidines, sed tamen prosperos et sibi caventes, circumspectos, non committentes ut deprehendantur ac notentur, adpetentes iuvenilia corpora adolescentum et puellarum, sumptuosos, iracundos, zelotypos. At in locis distortis, circumspectantes libidinose, molles, furenter ruentes in libidines, negligentes sui, maledicos, moechos, contumeliosos, mendaces, fraudulentos, stupra suis et alienis offerentes, pronos et vehementes ad voluptates, corruptores mulierum et virginum, temere se in pericula coniicientes, flagrantes, indecoris gestibus