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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 231

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silii societate aut propter agriculturam aut haereditatem; Saturnus et Mars significant pugnas et insidias consulto instructas; Saturnus et Venus coniunctionem propter cognatas personas, sed quae cito frigescit; Saturnus et Mercurius cognationes, familiaritates, societatem commerciorum, contractuum et sacrorum efficit. Iupiter et Mars sodalitia per magistratus aut alias gubernationes; Iupiter et Venus amicitias per publicas personas, quae sacrificiis aut vaticiniis occupatae sunt; Iupiter et Mercurius conversationes propter studia doctrinae et artium. Mars et Venus faciunt conversationes per amores, adulteria et scortationes, quae tamen et periculosae sunt et non diu sunt laetae; Mars et Mercurius inimicitias, infamias et rixas significant, literis mandatas et veneficia. Venus et Mercurius significant familiaritates ex artibus, stu