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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 213

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nentes, fanatici, versantes in locis ubi fiunt sacra, lamentationes, lacerationes corporum; sin autem a Iove adiuvantur, erunt sacrificuli, aruspices, sacrorum baiuli, mulieribus praefecti, nuptiarum conciliatores et inde victitantes, fruentes voluptatibus, sine metu ullius periculi. Signorum autem proprietas, in quibus sunt planetae magisterii datores, ad varietatem artium conducit. Signa, quorum figurae sunt humanae, conducunt ad scientias et ad artes, ad usum humanum accommodatas; quadrupedum figurae conducunt ad metallica, ad negociationes, aedificationes et fabricationes; aequinoctialia et solstitialia, ad commutationes, interpretationes, geometriam, agriculturam et caeremonias; terrestria vero et aquatica conducunt ad tractandas res nascentes in aquis, item ad herbas et naves fabricandas, item ad sepulturas, ad condimenta, salsamenta vel herbas condiendas. Si vero Luna adspicit datores magi