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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 196

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doctrinarum capaces, ingeniosos, poeticos, musicos, elegantiam amantes, placidos, suaviter victitantes, deliciarum amantes, hilares, amicis fidos, pios, intelligentes, vafros, solertes, bene coniectantes, cum dexteritate omnia facientes, celeriter discentes, discendi cupidos, sine doctore multa discentes, ardentes studio optima imitandi, formosos, comes, suaves, moribus bene compositis, studiosos, ludorum cupidos, dextre iudicteans, magnanimos, cautos in venereis, zelotypos. In contrariis locis, invasores, vafros, deformes, instabiles, malevolos, impostores, turbatores, mendaces, calumniatores, periuros, clam struentes fraudem, veteratores, pactorum violatores, perfidos, non reconciliabiles, stupratores, comptos, molles, infames, criminibus publicis obnoxios, ubique se ingerentes, interdum corruptelis, interdum sua quadam natura incitatos, turpia agentes et variis viciis dedecoratos.

⟨III.25⟩ Mercurius

Mercurii stella sola dominium ani