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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 210

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dicabitur, sed artis genus ex proprietate trium stellarum, Martis, Veneris et Mercurii, et ex signis, quae peragrant sumetur. Mercurius artis magister, ut in summa dicam, efficit scribas, grammaticos, computatores, doctores, negociatores, mensarios, vates, astrologos, sacrificulos, denique tales, qui exerceant literarum interpretationem et contractus; et si Saturnus fausto adspectu eum adspicit, efficiet alienarum opum procuratores, interpretes somniorum aut versantes in sacris, propter vaticinia et adflatus; sin autem Iupiter eum adspexerit, efficiet oratores, doctores, cum potentibus viris familiaritatem habentes. Sin autem Venus praeerit magisterio, facit artifices, qui odores, ungenta, vina, colores, tincturas, aromata, ornatus adparant, ut myropolas, coronarios, caupones, negociatores, pharmacopolas, textores, aromatarios, pictores, vestiarios; et cum Saturnus Venerem adspicit, facit negociatores rerum accommodatarum ad voluptates, ad ornatum,