ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΣ, Σύνταξις Ἀποτελεσματικὴ ἢ Τετράβιβλος

1. Προοίμιον

     Ἐφωδευμένης ἡμῖν ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν τῆς περὶ τὰ καθόλου συμπτώματα θεωρίας, ὡς προηγουμένης καὶ τὰ πολλὰ κατακρατεῖν δυναμένης τῶν περὶ ἕνα ἕκαστον τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατὰ τὸ ἴδιον τῆς φύσεως ἀποτελουμένων, ὧν τὸ προγνωστικὸν μέρος γενεθλιαλογίαν καλοῦμεν, δύναμιν μὲν μίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν εἰδῶν ἡγεῖσθαι προσήκει, καὶ περὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν καὶ περὶ τὸ θεωρητικόν, ἐπειδήπερ καὶ τῶν καθόλου καὶ τῶν καθ’ ἕνα ἕκαστον συμπτωμάτων αἰτία μὲν ἡ τῶν πλανωμένων ἀστέρων ἡλίου τε καὶ σελήνης κίνησις, προγνωστικὴ δὲ ἡ τῆς τῶν ὑποκειμένων αὐτοῖς φύσεων τροπῆς κατὰ τὰς ὁμοιοσχήμονας τῶν οὐρανίων παρόδους διὰ τοῦ περιέχοντος ἐπιστημονικὴ παρατήρησις, πλὴν ἐφ’ ὅσον ἡ μὲν καθολικὴ περίστασις μείζων τε καὶ αὐτοτελής, ἡ δὲ ἐπὶ μέρους οὐχ ὁμοίως.

     Ἀρχὰς δὲ οὐκέτι τὰς αὐτὰς ἀμφοτέρων νομιστέον εἶναι, ἀφ’ ὧν τὴν τῶν οὐρανίων διάθεσιν ὑποτιθέμενοι τὰ διὰ τῶν τότε σχηματισμῶν σημαινόμενα πειρώμεθα προγινώσκειν, ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν καθολικῶν πολλάς, ἐπειδὴ μίαν τοῦ παντὸς οὐκ ἔχομεν, καὶ ταύτας οὐκ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν ὑποκειμένων πάντοτε λαμβανομένας, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν περιεχόντων καὶ τὰς αἰτίας ἐπιφερόντων· σχεδὸν γὰρ πάσας ἀπό τε τῶν τελειοτέρων ἐκλείψεων καὶ τῶν ἐπισήμως παροδευόντων ἀστέρων ἐπισκεπτόμεθα· τῶν δὲ καθ’ ἕνα ἕκαστον τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ μίαν καὶ πολλάς, μίαν μὲν τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ συγκρίματος ἀρχήν, καὶ ταύτην γὰρ ἔχομεν, πολλὰς δὲ τὰς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς τῶν περιεχόντων πρὸς τὴν πρώτην ἀρχὴν ἐπισημασίας συμβαινούσας, προηγουμένης μέντοι τῆς μιᾶς ἐνθάδε εἰκότως, ἐπειδήπερ αὕτη καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀποτελεῖ.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς πρώτης ἀρχῆς θεωρεῖται τὰ καθόλου τῆς συγκρίσεως ἰδιώματα, διὰ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων τὰ κατὰ καιροὺς παρὰ τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον συμβησόμενα κατὰ τὰς λεγομένας τῶν ἐφεξῆς χρόνων διαιρέσεις.

1. Introduction

     As in what precedes we have presented the theory of universal events, because this comes first and for the most part has power to control the predictions which concern the special nature of any individual, the prognostic part of which we call the genethlialogical art, we must believe that the two divisions have one and the same power both practically and theoretically. For the cause both of universal and of particular events is the motion of the planets, sun, and moon; and the prognostic art is the scientific observation of precisely the change in the subject natures which corresponds to parallel movements of the heavenly bodies through the surrounding heavens, except that universal conditions are greater and independent, and particular ones not similarly so.

     We must not, however, consider that both divisions ¹ employ the same starting points, from which, by reckoning the disposition of the heavenly bodies, we attempt to foretell the events signified by their aspects at that time. On the contrary, in the case of the universals we have to take many starting points, since we have no single one for the universe; and these too are not always taken from the subjects themselves, but also from the elements that attend them and carry with them the causes; for we investigate practically all the starting-points presented by the more complete eclipses and the significant passages of the planets. In predictions affecting individual men, however, we have both one and many starting-points. The one is the beginning of the temperament ² itself, for this we have; and the many are the successive significances of the ambients which are relative to this first beginning, though to be sure the single starting-point is naturally in this case of greatest importance because it produces the others.

     As this is so, the general characteristics of the temperament are determined from the first starting­point, while by means of the others we predict events that will come about at specific times and vary in degree, following the so-called ages of life ³.

2. Περὶ σπορᾶς καὶ ἐκτροπῆς

     Ἀρχῆς δὲ χρονικῆς ὑπαρχούσης τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων τέξεων φύσει μὲν τῆς κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν σποράν, δυνάμει δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὸ συμβεβηκὸς τῆς κατὰ τὴν ἀποκύησιν ἐκτροπῆς, ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἐγνωκότων τὸν τῆς σπορᾶς καιρὸν ἤτοι συμπτωματικῶς ἢ καὶ παρατηρητικῶς, ἐκείνῳ μᾶλλον προσήκει πρός τε τὰ τοῦ σώματος καὶ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἰδιώματα κατακολουθεῖν, τὸ ποιητικὸν τοῦ κατ’ αὐτὸν τῶν ἀστέρων σχηματισμοῦ διασκεπτομένους·

     Ἅπαξ γὰρ ἐν ἀρχῇ τὸ σπέρμα ποιόν πως γενόμενον ἐκ τῆς τοῦ περιέχοντος διαδόσεως, κἂν διάφορον τοῦτο γίνηται κατὰ τοὺς ἐφεξῆς τῆς σωματοποιήσεως χρόνους, αὐτὸ τὴν οἰκείαν μόνην ὕλην φυσικῶς προσεπισυγκρίνον ἑαυτῷ κατὰ τὴν αὔξησιν ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐξομοιοῦται τῇ τῆς πρώτης ποιότητος ἰδιοτροπίᾳ· ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν μὴ γινωσκόντων, ὅπερ ὡς ἐπίπαν συμβαίνει, τῇ κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν ἀρχῇ καὶ ταύτῃ προσανέχειν ἀναγκαῖον, ὡς μεγίστη καὶ αὕτη καὶ μόνῳ τούτῳ τῆς πρώτης λειπομένη τῷ δι’ ἐκείνης καὶ τὰ πρὸ τῆς ἐκτέξεως δύνασθαι προγινώσκεσθαι.

     Καὶ γὰρ εἰ τὴν μὲν ἀρχὴν ἄν τις εἴποι, τὴν δὲ ὥσπερ καταρχήν, τὸ μέγεθος αὐτῆς τῷ μὲν χρόνῳ γίνεται δεύτερον, ἴσον δὲ καὶ μᾶλλον τελειότερον τῇ δυνάμει, σχεδόν τε δικαίως ἐκείνη μὲν ἂν ὀνομάζοιτο σπέρματος ἀνθρωπίνου γένεσις, αὕτη δὲ ἀνθρώπου· πλεῖστά τε γὰρ τότε προσλαμβάνει τὸ βρέφος, ἃ μὴ πρότερον, ὅτε κατὰ γαστρὸς ἦν, προσῆν αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὰ τὰ ἴδια μόνης τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως·

     Ὅ τε σωματώδης σχηματισμός, κἂν μηδὲν αὐτῷ δοκῇ τὸ κατὰ τὴν ἔκτεξιν περιέχον εἰς τὸ τοιῷδε εἶναι συμβάλλεσθαι, αὐτῷ πρὸς τὸ κατὰ τὸν οἰκεῖον τοῦ περιέχοντος σχηματισμὸν εἰς φῶς ἐλθεῖν συμβάλλεται, τῆς φύσεως μετὰ τὴν τελείωσιν πρὸς τὸ ὁμοιότυπον κατάστημα τῷ κατ’ ἀρχὰς διαμορφώσαντι μερικῶς τὴν ὁρμὴν τῆς ἐξόδου ποιουμένης, ὥστε εὐλόγως καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἡγεῖσθαι δηλωτικὸν εἶναι τὸν κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν τῶν ἀστέρων σχηματισμόν, οὐχ ὡς ποιητικὸν μέντοι πάντως, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἐξ ἀνάγκης κατὰ φύσιν ὁμοιότατον δυνάμει τῷ ποιητικῷ.

     Προθέσεως δὲ κατὰ τὸ παρὸν ἡμῖν οὔσης καὶ τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ἐφοδικῶς ἀναπληρῶσαι κατὰ τὸν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς δὲ τῆς συντάξεως ὑφηγημένον ἐπιλογισμὸν περὶ τοῦ δυνατοῦ τῆς τοιαύτης προγνώσεως, τὸν μὲν ἀρχαῖον τῶν προρρήσεων τρόπον τὸν κατὰ τὸ συγκρατικὸν εἶδος τῶν ἀστέρων πάντων ἢ τῶν πλείστων, πολύχουν τε ὄντα καὶ σχεδὸν ἄπειρον, εἴ τις αὐτὸν ἀκριβοῦν ἐθέλοι, κατὰ τὴν διέξοδον καὶ μᾶλλον ἐν ταῖς κατὰ μέρος ἐπιβολαῖς τῶν φυσικῶς ἐπισκεπτομένων ἢ ἐν ταῖς παραδόσεσι ἀναθεωρεῖσθαι δυνάμενον παραιτησόμεθα διά τε τὸ δύσχρηστον καὶ τὸ δυσδιέξοδον.

     Τὰς δὲ πραγματείας αὐτάς, δι’ ὧν ἕκαστα τῶν εἰδῶν κατὰ τὸν ἐπιβλητικὸν τρόπον συνορᾶται, καὶ τὰς κατὰ τὸ ἰδιότροπον καὶ ὁλοσχερὲς τῶν ἀστέρων πρὸς ἕκαστα ποιητικὰς δυνάμεις, ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα, παρακολουθητικῶς τε ἅμα καὶ ἐπιτετμημένως κατὰ τὸν φυσικὸν στοχασμὸν ἐκθησόμεθα, τοὺς μὲν τοῦ περιέχοντος τόπους, πρὸς οὓς ἕκαστα θεωρεῖται τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων συμπτωμάτων καθάπερ σκοπὸν οὗ δεῖ καταστοχάζεσθαι προυποτιθέμενοι, τὰς δὲ τῶν τοῖς τόποις κατ’ ἐπικράτησιν συνοικειουμένων σωμάτων ποιητικὰς δυνάμεις ὥσπερ ἀφέσεις βελῶν κατὰ τὸ ὁλοσχερέστερον ἐφαρμόζοντες, τὸ δὲ ἐκ τῆς συγκράσεως τῆς ἐκ πλειόνων φύσεων περὶ τὸ ὑποκείμενον εἶδος συναγόμενον ἀποτέλεσμα καταλιπόντες, ὥσπερ εὐστόχῳ τοξότῃ τῷ τοῦ διασκεπτομένου λογισμῷ·

     Πρῶτον δὲ περὶ τῶν καθόλου διὰ τῆς κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν ἀρχῆς θεωρουμένων ποιησόμεθα τὸν λόγον κατὰ τὴν προσήκουσαν τῆς τάξεως ἀκολουθίαν, πάντων μὲν ὡς ἔφαμεν τῶν φύσιν ἐχόντων διὰ ταύτης λαμβάνεσθαι δυναμένων, συνεργησόντων δὲ εἴ τις ἔτι περιεργάζεσθαι θέλοι πρὸς μόνα τὰ κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν σύγκρισιν ἰδιώματα καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὸν τῆς σπορᾶς χρόνον διὰ τῆς αὐτῆς θεωρίας ὑποπιπτόντων ἰδιωμάτων.

2. Of conception and parturition

     Since the chronological starting-point of human nativities is naturally the very time of conception, but potentially and accidentally the moment of birth, in cases in which the very time of conception is known either by chance or by observation, it is more fitting that we should follow it in determining the special nature of body and soul, examining the effective power of the configuration of the stars at that time.

     For to the seed is given once and for all at the beginning such and such qualities by the endowment of the ambient; and even though it may change as the body subsequently grows, since by natural process it mingles with itself in the process of growth only matter which is akin to itself, thus it resembles even more closely the type of its initial quality. But if they do not know the time of conception, which is usually the case, we must follow the starting-point furnished by the moment of birth and give to this our attention, for it too is of great importance and falls abort of the former only in this respect ­ that by the former it is possible to have foreknowledge also of events preceding birth.

     For if one should call the one “source” and the other, as it were, “beginning”, its importance in time, indeed, is secondary, but it is equal or rather even more perfect in potentiality, and with reasonable propriety would the former be called the genesis of human seed and the latter the genesis of a man. For the child at birth and his bodily form take on many additional attributes which he did not have before, when he was in the womb, those very ones indeed which belong to human nature alone;

     And even if it seems that the ambient at the time of birth contributes nothing toward his quality, at least his very coming forth into the light under the appropriate conformation of the heavens contributes, since nature, after the child is perfectly formed, gives the impulse to its birth under a configuration of similar type to that which governed the child’s formation in detail in the first place ⁴. Accordingly one may with good reason believe that the position of the stars at the time of birth is significant of things of this sort, not, however, for the reason that it is causative in the full sense, but that of necessity and by nature it bas potentially very similar causative power.

     Since it is our present purpose to treat of this division likewise systematically on the basis of the discussion, introduced at the beginning of this compendium, of the possibility of prediction of this kind, we shall decline to present the ancient method of prediction, which brings into combination all or most of the stars, because it is manifold and well-nigh infinite, if one wishes to recount it with accuracy. Besides, it depends much more upon the particular attempts of those who make their inquiries directly from nature than of those who can theorize on the basis of the traditions; and furthermore we shall omit it on account of the difficulty in using it and following it.

     Those very procedures through which each kind of thing is apprehended by the practical method, and the active influences of the stars, both special and general, we shall, as far as possible, consistently and briefly, in accordance with natural conjecture, set forth. Our preface shall be an account of the places in the heavens to which reference is made when particular human events are theoretically considered, a kind of mark at which One must aim before proceeding further; to this we shall add a general discussion of the active powers of the heavenly bodies that gain kinship with these places by dominating them –the loosing of the arrow, as it were; but the predicted result, summed up by the combination of many elements applied to the underlying form, we shall leave, as to a skillful archer, to the calculation of him who conducts the investigation.

     First, then, we shall discuss in proper sequence the general matters the consideration of which is accomplished through the time of birth taken as the starting-point, for, as we have said, this furnishes an explanation of all natural events, but, if One is willing to take the additional trouble, by the same reasoning the properties that fall at the time of conception will also be of aid toward ascertaining the peculiar qualities that apply directly to the combination.

3. Περὶ μοίρας ὡροσκοπούσης

     Ἐπειδὴ περὶ τοῦ πρώτου καὶ κυριωτάτου, τουτέστι τοῦ μορίου τῆς κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν ὥρας, ἀπορία γίγνεται πολλάκις, μόνης μὲν ὡς ἐπίπαν τῆς δι’ ἀστρολάβων ὡροσκοπείων κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν ἔκτεξιν διοπτεύσεως τοῖς ἐπιστημονικῶς παρατηροῦσι τὸ λεπτὸν τῆς ὥρας ὑποβάλλειν δυναμένης, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων σχεδὸν ἁπάντων ὡροσκοπείων, οἷς οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν ἐπιμελεστέρων προσέχουσι, πολλαχῆ διαψεύδεσθαι τῆς ἀληθείας δυναμένων, τῶν μὲν ἡλιακῶν παρὰ τὰς τῶν θέσεων καὶ τῶν γνωμόνων ἐπισυμπιπτούσας διαστροφάς, τῶν δὲ ὑδρολογίων παρὰ τὰς τῆς ῥύσεως τοῦ ὕδατος ὑπὸ διαφόρων αἰτιῶν καὶ διὰ τὸ τυχὸν ἐποχάς τε καὶ ἀνωμαλίας, ἀναγκαῖον ἂν εἴη προπαραδοθῆναι, τίνα ἄν τις τρόπον εὑρίσκοι τὴν ὀφείλουσαν ἀνατέλλειν μοῖραν τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ κατὰ τὸν φυσικὸν καὶ ἀκόλουθον λόγον προυποτεθείσης τῆς κατὰ τὴν διδομένην σύνεγγυς ὥραν διὰ τῆς τῶν ἀναφορῶν πραγματείας εὑρισκομένης.

     Δεῖ δὴ λαμβάνειν τὴν τῆς ἐκτροπῆς προγινομένην ἔγγιστα συζυγίαν, ἐάν τε σύνοδος ᾖ ἐάν τε πανσέληνος, καὶ τὴν μοῖραν ἀκριβῶς διασκεψαμένους συνόδου μὲν οὔσης τὴν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν φώτων, πανσελήνου δὲ τὴν τοῦ ὑπὲρ γῆν αὐτῶν ὄντος κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τῆς ἐκτροπῆς, ἰδεῖν τοὺς πρὸς αὐτὴν οἰκοδεσποτικὸν ἔχοντας λόγον τῶν ἀστέρων τοῦ τρόπου καθόλου τοῦ κατὰ τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν ἐν πέντε τούτοις θεωρουμένου, τριγώνῳ τε καὶ οἴκῳ καὶ ὑψώματι καὶ ὁρίῳ καὶ φάσει ἢ συσχηματισμῷ, τουτέστιν ὅταν ἕν τι ἢ πλείονα τούτων ἢ καὶ πάντα ὁ ζητούμενος ἔχῃ τόπος πρὸς τὸν μέλλοντα οἰκοδεσποτήσειν.

     Ἐὰν μὲν οὖν ἕνα πρὸς ταῦτα πάντα ἢ τὰ πλεῖστα οἰκείως διακείμενον εὑρίσκωμεν, ἣν ἂν ἐπέχῃ μοῖραν οὗτος ἀκριβῶς καθ’ ὃ παροδεύει δωδεκατημόριον ἐν τῷ τῆς ἐκτροπῆς χρόνῳ, τὴν ἰσάριθμον αὐτῇ κρινοῦμεν ἀνατέλλειν ἐν τῷ διὰ τῆς τῶν ἀναφορῶν πραγματείας εὑρημένῳ ἐγγυτέρῳ δωδεκατημορίῳ, ἐὰν δὲ δύο ἢ καὶ πλείους συνοικοδεσποτοῦντας, οὗ ἂν αὐτῶν ἡ κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν μοιρικὴ πάροδος ἐγγύτερον ἔχῃ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῇ κατὰ τὰς ἀναφορὰς ἀνατελλούσῃ, τούτου τῇ ποσότητι τῶν μοιρῶν χρησόμεθα, εἰ δὲ δύο ἢ καὶ πλείους ἐγγὺς εἶεν τῷ ἀριθμῷ, τῷ μᾶλλον ἔχοντι λόγον πρὸς τὰ κέντρα, ἢ καὶ τὴν αἵρεσιν κατακολουθήσομεν.

     Ἐὰν μέντοι πλείων ᾖ ἡ ἀπόστασις τῶν τῆς οἰκοδεσποτείας μοιρῶν πρὸς τὴν κατὰ τὸ ὁλοσχερὲς ὡροσκοπεῖον, ἤπερ πρὸς τὴν κατὰ τὸ ὅμοιον μεσουράνημα τῷ αὐτῷ ἀριθμῷ πρὸς τὴν μεσουρανοῦσαν μοῖραν καταχρησάμενοι διὰ ταύτης καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν κέντρων διαστησόμεθα.

3. Of the Degree of the Horoscopic Point

     Difficulty often arises with regard to the first and most important fact, that is, the fraction of the hour of the birth; for in general only observation by means of horoscopic astrolabes ⁵ at the time of birth can for scientific observers give the minute of the hour, while practically all other horoscopic instruments on which the majority of the more careful practitioners rely are frequently capable of error, the solar instruments by the occasional shifting of their positions or of their gnomons ⁶, and the water clocks by stoppages and irregularities in the flow of the water from different causes and by mere chance. It would therefore be necessary that an account first be given how one might, by natural and consistent reasoning, discover the degree of the zodiac which should be rising, given the degree of the known hour nearest the event, which is discovered by the method of ascensions ⁷.

     We must, then, take the syzygy ⁸ most recently preceding the birth, whether it be a new moon or a full moon; and, likewise having ascertained the degree accurately, of both the luminaries if it is a new moon, and if it is a full moon that of the one of them that is above the earth, we must see what stars rule it at the time of the birth ⁹. In general the mode of domination is considered as falling under these live forms: when it is trine, house, exaltation, term, and phase or aspect; that is, whenever the place in question is related in one or several or all of these ways to the star that is to be the ruler.

     If, then, we discover that one star is familiar with the degree in all or most of these respects, whatever degree this star by accurate reckoning occupies in the sign through which it is passing, we shall judge that the corresponding degree is rising at the time of the nativity in the sign which is found to be closest by the method of ascensions ¹⁰. But if we discover two or more co­rulers, we shall use the number of degrees shown by whichever of them is, at the time of birth, passing through the degree that is closer to that which is rising according to the ascensions. But if two or more are close in the number of degrees, we shall follow the One which is most nearly related to the centres and the sect.

     If, however, the distance of the degree occupied by the ruler from that of the general horoscope is greater than its distance from that of the corresponding mid-heaven, we shall use this same number to constitute the mid­heaven and thereby establish the other angles ¹¹.

4. Διαίρεσις γενεθλιαλογίας

     Τούτων δὴ προεκτεθειμένων εἴ τις αὐτῆς τῆς τάξεως ἕνεκεν διαιροίη τὸ καθόλου τῆς γενεθλιαλογικῆς θεωρίας, εὕροι ἂν τῶν κατὰ φύσιν καὶ δυνατῶν καταλήψεων τὴν μὲν τῶν πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως οὖσαν συμπτωμάτων μόνον ὡς τὴν τοῦ περὶ γονέων λόγου, τὴν δὲ τῶν καὶ πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως καὶ μετὰ τὴν γένεσιν, ὡς τὴν τοῦ περὶ ἀδελφῶν λόγου, τὴν δὲ τῶν κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν γένεσιν οὐκέθ’ οὕτως μίαν οὖσαν οὐδὲ ἁπλῆν, τελευταίαν δὲ τὴν τῶν μετὰ τὴν γένεσιν πολυμερεστέραν καὶ ταύτην θεωρουμένην.

     Ἔστι δὲ τῶν μὲν κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν γένεσιν ἐπιζητουμένων ὅ τε περὶ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν λόγος καὶ ὁ περὶ διδυμογόνων ἢ πλειστογόνων καὶ ὁ περὶ τεράτων καὶ ὁ περὶ ἀτρόφων, τῶν δὲ μετὰ τὴν γένεσιν ὅ τε περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς, ἐπειδήπερ οὐ συνῆπται τῷ περὶ ἀτρόφων, ἔπειτα ὁ περὶ μορφῆς σώματος καὶ ὁ περὶ παθῶν ἢ σινῶν σωματικῶν, ἑξῆς δὲ ὁ περὶ ψυχῆς ποιότητος καὶ ὁ περὶ παθῶν ψυχικῶν, ἔπειθ’ ὁ περὶ τύχης κτητικῆς καὶ ὁ περὶ τύχης ἀξιωματικῆς μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ὁ περὶ πράξεως ποιότητος, εἶτα ὁ περὶ συμβιώσεως γαμικῆς καὶ ὁ περὶ τεκνοποιίας καὶ ὁ περὶ συνεπιπλοκῶν καὶ συναρμογῶν καὶ φίλων, ἑξῆς δ’ ὁ περὶ ξενιτειῶν, τελευταῖος δὲ ὁ περὶ τῆς τοῦ θανάτου ποιότητος, τῇ μὲν δυνάμει συνοικειούμενος τῷ περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς, τῇ τάξει δ’ εἰκότως ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοις τιθέμενος.

     Ὑπὲρ ὧν ἑκάστου κατὰ τὸ κεφαλαιῶδες ποιησόμεθα τὴν ὑφήγησιν, αὐτὰς τὰς τῆς ἐπισκέψεως πραγματείας μετὰ ψιλῶν τῶν ποιητικῶν δυνάμεων, ὡς ἔφαμεν, ἐκτιθέμενοι, καὶ τὰ μὲν περιέργως ὑπὸ τῶν πολλῶν φλυαρούμενα καὶ μὴ πιθανὸν ἔχοντα λόγον πρὸς τὰς ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης φύσεως αἰτίας παραπεμπόμενοι, τὰ δὲ ἐνδεχομένην ἔχοντα τὴν κατάληψιν οὐ διὰ κλήρων καὶ ἀριθμῶν ἀναιτιολογήτων, ἀλλὰ δι’ αὐτῆς τῆς τῶν σχηματισμῶν πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους τόπους θεωρίας ἐπισκεπτόμενοι, καθόλου μέντοι καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων ἁπλῶς, ἵνα μὴ καθ’ ἕκαστον εἶδος ταυτολογῶμεν.

     Πρῶτον μὲν χρὴ σκοπεῖν τὸν οἰκειούμενον τόπον τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ τῷ ζητουμένῳ τῆς γενέσεως κατ’ εἶδος κεφαλαίῳ, καθάπερ λόγου ἕνεκεν, τῷ περὶ πράξεων τὸν τοῦ μεσουρανήματος ἢ τῷ περὶ πατρὸς τὸν ἡλιακόν, ἔπειτα θεωρεῖν τοὺς λόγον ἔχοντας πρὸς τὸν ὑποκείμενον τόπον τῶν ἀστέρων οἰκοδεσποτείας καθ’ οὓς ἐπάνω προείπομεν πέντε τρόπους, κἂν μὲν εἷς ᾖ ὁ κατὰ πάντας κύριος τούτῳ διδόναι τὴν ἐκείνης τῆς προτελέσεως οἰκοδεσποτείαν, ἐὰν δὲ δύο ἢ τρεῖς, τοῖς τὰς πλείους ἔχουσι ψήφους, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πρὸς μὲν τὸ ποῖον τοῦ ἀποτελέσματος σκοπεῖν τάς τε αὐτῶν τῶν οἰκοδεσποτησάντων ἀστέρων φύσεις καὶ τὰς τῶν δωδεκατημορίων, ἐν οἷς εἰσιν αὐτοί τε καὶ οἱ συνοικειούμενοι τόποι, πρὸς δὲ τὸ μέγεθος αὐτῶν σκοπεῖν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν, πότερον ἐνεργῶς τυγχάνουσι διακείμενοι κατά τε αὐτὸ τὸ κοσμικὸν καὶ τὸ κατὰ τὴν γένεσιν ἢ τὸ ἐναντίον·

     Δραστικώτατοι μὲν γάρ εἰσιν, ὅταν κοσμικῶς μὲν ἐν ἰδίοις ἢ ἐν οἰκείοις ὦσι τόποις, καὶ πάλιν ὅταν ἀνατολικοὶ τυγχάνωσι καὶ προσθετικοὶ τοῖς ἀριθμοῖς, κατὰ γένεσιν δέ, ὅταν ἐπὶ τῶν κέντρων ἢ τῶν ἐπαναφορῶν παροδεύωσι, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν πρώτων· λέγω δὲ τῶν τε κατὰ τὰς ἀναφορὰς καὶ τὰς μεσουρανήσεις· ἀδρανέστατοι δέ, ὅταν κοσμικῶς μὲν ἐν ἀλλοτρίοις ἢ ἀνοικείοις ὦσι τόποις, καὶ δυτικοὶ ἢ ἀναποδιστικοὶ τοῖς δρόμοις ὦσι, κατὰ γένεσιν δέ, ὅταν ἀποκλίνωσι τῶν κέντρων· πρὸς δὲ τὸν καθόλου χρόνον τοῦ ἀποτελέσματος, πότερον ἑῷοί εἰσιν ἢ ἑσπέριοι πρός τε τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὸν ὡροσκόπον, ἐπειδήπερ τὰ μὲν προηγούμενα ἑκατέρου αὐτῶν τεταρτημόρια καὶ τὰ διάμετρα τούτοις ἑῷα γίνεται, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ καὶ ἑπόμενα ἑσπέρια, καὶ πότερον ἐπὶ τῶν κέντρων τυγχάνουσιν ἢ τῶν ἐπαναφορῶν× ἑῷοι μὲν γὰρ ὄντες ἢ ἐπίκεντροι κατ’ ἀρχὰς γίνονται δραστικώτεροι, ἑσπέριοι δὲ ἢ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπαναφορῶν βραδύτεροι.

4. The Subdivision of the Science of Nativities

     After this preface, should any one simply for the sake of order attempt to subdivide the whole field of genethlialogical science, he would find that, of all the natural and possible predictions, one division concerns solely events preceding the birth, such as the account of the parents; another deals with events both before and after the birth, such as the account of brothers and sisters; another, with events at the very time of the birth, a subject which is no longer so unitary and simple; and finally that which treats of post-natal matters, which is likewise more complex in its theoretical development ¹².

     Among the subjects contemporary with the birth into which inquiry is made are those of sex, of twins or multiple births, of monsters, and of children that cannot be reared. To those dealing with post-natal events belong the account of the length of life, for this is not attached to the account of children that cannot be reared; second, that of the form of the body and that of bodily illnesses and injuries; next, that of the quality of the mind and illnesses of the mind; then that which concerns fortune, both in the matter of possessions and in that of dignities; and after this the account of the quality of action; then that of marriage and of the begetting of children, and that of associations, agreements, and friends; following comes the account of journeys, and finally that of the quality of death, which is potentially akin to the inquiry about the length of life, but in order is reasonably placed at the end of all these subjects.

     We shall sketch each of these subjects briefly, explaining, as we said before, together with the effective powers by themselves, the actual procedure of investigation; as for the nonsense on which many waste their labour and of which not even a plausible account can be given, this we shall dismiss in favour of the primary natural causes. What, however, admits of prediction we shall investigate, not by means of Lots and numbers of which no reasonable explanation can be given, but merely through the science of the aspects of the stars to the places with which they have familiarity, in general terms, however, which are applicable to absolutely all cases, that we may avoid the repetition involved in the discussion of particular cases.

     In the first place, we should examine that place of the zodiac which is pertinent to the specific heading of the geniture which is subject to query; for example, the mid-heaven, for the query about action, or the place of the sun for the question about the father; then we must observe those planets which have the relation of rulership to the place in question by the five ways aforesaid ¹³; and if one planet is lord in all these ways, we must assign to him the rulership of that prediction; if two or three, we must assign it to those which have the more claims. After this, to determine the quality of the prediction, we must consider the natures of the ruling planets themselves and of the signs in which are the planets themse1ves, and the places familiar to them. For the magnitude of the event we must examine their power ¹⁴ and observe whether they are actively situated both in the cosmos itself and in the nativity ¹⁵, or the reverse;

     For they are most effective when, with respect to the cosmos, they are in their own or in familiar regions, and again when they are rising and are increasing in their numbers ¹⁶; and, with respect to the nativity, whenever they are passing through the angles or signs that rise after them ¹⁷, and especially the principal of these, by which I mean the signs ascendant and culminating. They are weakest, with respect to the universe, when they are in places belonging to others or those unrelated to them, and when they are occidental or retreating in their course; and, with respect to the nativity, when they are declining from the angles. For the time of the predicted event in general we must observe whether they are oriental or occidental to the sun and to the horoscope; for the quadrants which precede each of them and those which are diametrically opposite are oriental, and the others, which follow, are occidental. Also we must observe whether they are at the angles or in the succedent signs; for if they are oriental or at the angles they are more effective at the beginning; if they are occidental or in the succeeding signs they are slower to take action.

5. Περὶ γονέων

     Ὁ μὲν οὖν προηγούμενος τύπος τῆς κατ’ εἶδος ἐπισκέψεως, οὗ διὰ παντὸς ἔχεσθαι προσήκει, τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον· ἀρξόμεθα δὲ ἤδη κατὰ τὴν ἐκκειμένην τάξιν ἀπὸ πρώτου τοῦ περὶ γονέων λόγου. Ὁ μὲν τοίνυν ἥλιος καὶ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου ἀστὴρ τῷ πατρικῷ προσώπῳ συνοικειοῦνται κατὰ φύσιν, ἡ δὲ σελήνη καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης τῷ μητρικῷ, καὶ ὅπως ἂν οὗτοι διακείμενοι τυγχάνωσι πρός τε ἀλλήλους καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους, τοιαῦτα δεῖ καὶ τὰ περὶ τοὺς γονέας ὑπονοεῖν.

     Τὰ μὲν γὰρ περὶ τῆς τύχης καὶ κτήσεως αὐτῶν ἐπισκεπτέον ἐκ τῆς δορυφορίας τῶν φώτων, ἐπειδήπερ περιεχόμενα μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγαθοποιεῖν δυναμένων καὶ τῶν τῆς αὐτῆς αἱρέσεως ἤτοι ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ζῳδίοις ἢ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐφεξῆς ἐπιφανῆ καὶ λαμπρὰ τὰ περὶ τοὺς γονέας διασημαίνει, καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν τὸν μὲν ἥλιον ἑῷοι δορυφορῶσιν ἄστερες, τὴν δὲ σελήνην ἑσπέριοι, καλῶς καὶ αὐτοὶ διακείμενοι, καθ’ ὃν εἰρήκαμεν τρόπον· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης καὶ αὐτοὶ τυγχάνωσιν ἀνατολικοί τε καὶ ἰδιοπροσωποῦντες ἢ καὶ ἐπίκεντροι, εὐδαιμονίαν πρόδηλον ὑπονοητέον κατὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἑκατέρου τῶν γονέων.

     Τὸ δὲ ἐναντίον, ἐὰν κενοδρομοῦντα ᾖ τὰ φῶτα καὶ ἀδορυφόρητα τυγχάνοντα, ταπεινότητος καὶ ἀδοξίας τοῖς γονεῦσί ἐστι δηλωτικά, καὶ μάλιστα ὅταν ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἢ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου κακῶς φαίνωνται διακείμενοι. Ἐὰν δὲ δορυφορῆται μέν, μὴ μέντοι ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς αὐτῆς αἱρέσεως, ὡς ὅταν Ἄρης μὲν ἐπαναφέρηται τῷ ἡλίῳ, Κρόνος δὲ τῇ σελήνῃ μήπως καλῶς κειμένων τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν καὶ κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἵρεσιν, μετριότητα καὶ ἀνωμαλίαν περὶ τὸν βίον αὐτῶν ὑπονοητέον.

     Κἂν μὲν σύμφωνος ᾖ ὁ διασημανθησόμενος τῆς τύχης κλῆρος ἐν τῇ γενέσει τοῖς τὸν ἥλιον ἢ τὴν σελήνην ἐπὶ καλῷ δορυφορήσασι, παραλήψονται σῷα τὰ τῶν γονέων, ἐὰν δὲ ἀσύμφωνος ᾖ ἢ ἐναντίος μηδενὸς ἢ τῶν κακοποιῶν εἰληφότων τὴν δορυφορίαν, ἄχρηστος αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐπιβλαβὴς ἡ τῶν γονέων ἔσται κτῆσις.

     Περὶ δὲ πολυχρονιότητος ἢ ὀλιγοχρονιότητος αὐτῶν σκεπτέον ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων συσχηματισμῶν· ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ πατρός, ἐὰν ὁ τοῦ Διὸς ἢ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συσχηματισθῶσιν ὁπωσδήποτε τῷ τε ἡλίῳ καὶ τῷ τοῦ Κρόνου, ἢ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου σύμφωνον ἔχῃ σχηματισμὸν πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον ἤτοι συνὼν ἢ ἑξαγωνίζων ἢ τριγωνίζων, ἐν δυνάμει μὲν ὄντων αὐτῶν πολυχρονιότητα τοῦ πατρὸς καταστοχαστέον, ἀδυνατούντων δὲ οὐχ ὁμοίως, οὐ μέντοι οὐδὲ ὀλιγοχρονιότητα.

     Ἐὰν δὲ τοῦτο μὲν μὴ ὑπάρχῃ, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως καθυπερτερήσῃ τὸν ἥλιον ἢ τὸν τοῦ Κρόνου ἢ καὶ ἐπανενεχθῇ αὐτοῖς, ἢ καὶ αὐτὸς πάλιν ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου μὴ σύμφωνος ᾖ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον, ἀλλ’ ἤτοι τετράγωνος ἢ διάμετρος, ἀποκεκλικότες μὲν τῶν κέντρων ἀσθενικοὺς μόνον τοὺς πατέρας ποιοῦσιν, ἐπίκεντροι δὲ ἢ ἐπαναφερόμενοι τοῖς κέντροις ὀλιγοχρονίους ἢ ἐπισινεῖς, ὀλιγοχρονίους μέν, ὅταν ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις ὦσι δυσὶ κέντροις τῷ τε ἀνατέλλοντι καὶ τῷ μεσουρανοῦντι καὶ ταῖς τούτων ἐπαναφοραῖς, ἐπισινεῖς δὲ ἢ ἐπινόσους, ὅταν ἐν τοῖς λοιποῖς δυσὶ κέντροις ὦσι τῷ τε δύνοντι καὶ τῷ ὑπογείῳ ἢ ταῖς τούτων ἐπαναφοραῖς.

     Ὁ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Ἄρεως τὸν ἥλιον βλέψας, καθ’ ὃν εἰρήκαμεν τρόπον, αἰφνιδίως ἀναιρεῖ τὸν πατέρα ἢ σίνη περὶ τὰς ὄψεις ποιεῖ, τὸν δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου βλέψας ἢ θανάτοις ἢ ῥιγοπυρέτοις ἢ σίνεσι διὰ τομῶν καὶ καύσεων περικυλίει· ὁ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ αὐτὸς κακῶς σχηματισθεὶς πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τοὺς θανάτους τοὺς πατρικοὺς ἐπινόσους κατασκευάζει καὶ πάθη τὰ διὰ τῆς τῶν ὑγρῶν ὀχλήσεως.

     Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς μητρός, ἐὰν μὲν ὁ τοῦ Διὸς συσχηματισθῇ τῇ τε σελήνῃ καὶ τῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ὁπωσδήποτε, ἢ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συμφώνως ἔχῃ πρὸς τὴν σελήνην ἑξάγωνος ὢν ἢ τρίγωνος ἢ συνὼν αὐτῇ, ἐν δυνάμει ὄντες πολυχρόνιον δεικνύουσι τὴν μητέρα· ἐὰν δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως βλέψῃ τὴν σελήνην καὶ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην ἐπανενεχθεὶς ἢ τετραγωνίσας ἢ διαμετρήσας ἢ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου τὴν σελήνην μόνην ὡσαύτως, ἀφαιρετικοὶ μὲν ὄντες ἢ ἀποκεκλικότες πάλιν ἀντιπτώμασι μόνον ἢ ἀσθενείαις περικυλίουσι, προσθετικοὶ δὲ ἢ ἐπίκεντροι ὀλιγοχρονίους ἢ ἐπισινεῖς ποιοῦσι τὰς μητέρας, ὀλιγοχρονίους μὲν ὁμοίως ἐπὶ τῶν ἀπηλιωτικῶν ὄντες κέντρων ἢ ἐπαναφορῶν, ἐπισινεῖς δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν δυτικῶν.

     Ἄρης μὲν γὰρ βλέψας τὴν σελήνην τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἀνατολικὴν μὲν οὖσαν τούς τε θανάτους τοὺς μητρικοὺς αἰφνιδίους καὶ τὰ σίνη περὶ τὰς ὄψεις ποιεῖ, ἀποκρουστικὴν δὲ τοὺς θανάτους ἀπὸ ἐκτρωσμῶν ἢ τῶν τοιούτων καὶ τὰ σίνη διὰ τομῶν καὶ καύσεων, τὴν δὲ Ἀφροδίτην βλέψας τούς τε θανάτους πυρεκτικοὺς ἀπεργάζεται καὶ πάθη τὰ δι’ ἀποκρύφων καὶ σκοτισμῶν καὶ προσδρόμων αἰφνιδίων· ὁ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου τὴν σελήνην βλέψας θανάτους καὶ πάθη ποιεῖ, ἀνατολικῆς μὲν οὔσης αὐτῆς διὰ ῥιγοπυρέτων, ἀποκρουστικῆς δὲ διὰ νόσων ὑστερικῶν καὶ ἀναβρώσεων.

     Προσπαραληπτέον δὲ εἰς τὰ κατὰ μέρος εἴδη τῶν σινῶν ἢ παθῶν ἢ καὶ θανάτων καὶ τὰς τῶν δωδεκατημορίων, ἐν οἷς εἰσιν οἱ τὸ αἴτιον ἐμποιοῦντες τῆς ἰδιοτροπίας, ὑπὲρ ὧν εὐκαιρότερον ἐν τοῖς περὶ αὐτῆς τῆς γενέσεως ἐπεξεργασόμεθα· καὶ ἔτι παρατηρητέον ἡμέρας μὲν μάλιστα τόν τε ἥλιον καὶ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην, νυκτὸς δὲ τὸν τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ τὴν σελήνην. Λοιπὸν δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν κατ’ εἶδος ἐξεργασιῶν ἁρμόζον καὶ ἀκόλουθον ἂν εἴη τὸν τῆς αἱρέσεως πατρικὸν ἢ μητρικὸν τόπον ὥσπερ ὡροσκόπον ὑποστησαμένους τὰ λοιπὰ ὡς ἐπὶ γενέσεως αὐτῶν τῶν γονέων ἐπισκοπεῖν κατὰ τὰς ἐφεξῆς ὑποδειχθησομένας τῶν ὁλοσχερεστέρων εἰδῶν πραγματικάς τε καὶ συμβατικὰς ἐφόδους.

     Τοῦ μέντοι συγκρατικοῦ τρόπου καὶ ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων μεμνῆσθαι προσήκει καταστοχαζομένους, ἐὰν μὴ μονοειδεῖς ἀλλὰ διάφοροι ἢ τῶν ἐναντίων ποιητικοὶ τυγχάνωσιν οἱ τὰς κυρίας τῶν ἐπιζητουμένων τόπων εἰληφότες ἀστέρες, τίνες ἐκ τῶν περὶ ἕκαστον συμβεβηκότων πρὸς δύναμιν πλεονεκτημάτων πλείους ἔχοντες εὑρίσκονται ψήφους πρὸς τὴν ἐπικράτησιν τῶν ἀποτελεσθησομένων, ἵνα ἢ ταῖς τούτων φύσεσιν ἀκόλουθον ποιώμεθα τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν ἢ τῶν ψήφων ἰσορρόπων οὐσῶν, ὅταν μὲν ἅμα ὦσιν οἱ ἐπικρατοῦντες, τὸ ἐκ τῆς κράσεως τῶν διαφόρων φύσεων συναγόμενον εὐστόχως ἐπιλογιζώμεθα, ὅταν δὲ διεστηκότες, ἀνὰ μέρος ἕκαστος, κατὰ τοὺς ἰδίους καιροὺς τὰ οἰκεῖα τῶν συμπτωμάτων ἀπομερίζωμεν, προτέροις μὲν τοῖς ἑῴοις μᾶλλον, ὑστέροις δὲ τοῖς ἑσπερίοις.

     Ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς μὲν γὰρ ἀνάγκη συνοικειωθῆναι τῷ ζητουμένῳ τόπῳ τὸν μέλλοντά τι περὶ αὐτὸν ἀπεργάζεσθαι τῶν ἀστέρων, καὶ τούτου μὴ συμβεβηκότος, οὐδὲν οἷόν τε καθόλου διαθεῖναι τὸν μηδ’ ὅλως τῆς ἀρχῆς κοινωνήσαντα τοῦ μέντοι χρόνου τῆς κατὰ τὸ ἀποτελούμενον ἐκβάσεως οὐκέτι τὸ τῆς πρώτης δεσποτείας αἴτιον, ἀλλ’ ἡ τοῦ κυριεύσαντός πως πρός τε τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὰς τοῦ κόσμου γωνίας διάστασις.

5. Of Parents

     The guiding style of the specific inquiry, to which we should adhere throughout, runs after this fashion. We shall now, therefore, begin, following the order just stated, with the account of parents, which comes first. Now the sun and Saturn are by nature associated with the person of the father and the moon and Venus with that of the mother, and as these may be disposed with respect to each other and the other stars, such must we suppose to be the affairs of the parents.

     Now the question of their fortune and wealth must be investigated by means of the attendance ¹⁸ upon the luminaries; for when they are surrounded by planets that can be of benefit and by planets of their own sect, either in the same signs or in the next following, they signify that the circumstances of the parents will be conspicuously brilliant, particularly if morning stars attend the sun and evening stars the moon, while the luminaries themselves are favourably placed in the way already described ¹⁹. But if both Saturn and Venus, likewise, happen to be in the orient and in their proper faces ²⁰, or at the angles, we must understand it to be a prediction of conspicuous happiness, in accordance with what is proper and fitting for each parent.

     But, on the other hand, if the luminaries are proceeding alone and without attendants, they are indicative of low station and obscurity for the parents, particularly whenever Venus or Saturn do not appeal in a favourable position. If, however, they are attended, but not by planets of the same sect, as when Mars rises close after the sun or Saturn after the moon, or if they are attended by beneficent planets which are in an unfavourable position and not of the same sect, we must understand that a moderate station and changing fortunes in life are predicted for them.

     And if the Lot of Fortune ²¹, of which we shall make an explanation, is in agreement in the nativity with the planets which in favourable position attend the sun or the moon, the children will receive the patrimony intact; if, however, it is in disagreement or opposition, and if no planet attends, or the maleficent planets are in attendance, the estate of the parents will be useless to the children and even harmful.

     With regard to the length or the shortness of their life one must inquire from the other configurations. For in the father’s case, if Jupiter or Venus is in any aspect whatever to the sun and to Saturn, or if Saturn himself is in an harmonious aspect to the sun, either conjunction, sextile, or trine, both being in power, we must conjecture long life for the father; if they are weak, however, the significance is not the same, though it does not indicate a short life.

     If, however, this condition is not present, but Mars overcomes ²² the sun or Saturn, or rises in succession to them, or when again Saturn is not in accord with the sun but is either in quartile or in opposition, if they are declining from the angles, they merely make the fathers weak, but if they are at the angles or rising after them, they make them short-lived or liable to injury: short-lived when they are upon the first two angles, the orient and the mid-heaven, and the succedent signs, and liable to injury or disease when they are in the other two angles, the occident and lower mid-heaven, or their succedent signs.

     For Mars, regarding the sun in the way described ²³, destroys the father suddenly or causes injuries to his sight; if he thus regards Saturn he puts him in peril of death or of chills and fever or of injury by cutting and cauterizing. Saturn himself in an unfavourable aspect to the sun still brings about the father’s death by disease and illnesses caused by gatherings of humours.

     In the case of the mother, if Jupiter is in any aspect whatever to the moon and to Venus, or if Venus herself is concordant with the moon, in sextile, trine, or conjunction, when they are in power, they signify long life for the mother. If, however, Mars regards the moon or Venus, rising after her or in quartile or in opposition, or if Saturn similarly regards the moon by herself, when they are diminishing or declining, again they merely threaten with misfortune or sickness; but if they are increasing or angular, they make the mothers short-lived or subject to injury. They make them short-lived similarly when they are at the eastern angles or the signs that rise after them, and liable to injury when they are at the western angles.

     For when Mars in this way regards the waxing moon, it brings about sudden death and injury of the eyesight for the mothers; but if the moon is waning, death from abortions or the like, and injury from cutting and cauterizing. If he regards Venus, he causes death by fever, mysterious and obscure illnesses, and sudden attacks of disease. Saturn regarding the moon causes death and illnesses, when the moon is in the orient, by chills and fever; when she is in the occident, by uterine ulcers and cancers.

     We must take into consideration, also, with reference to the particular kinds of injuries, diseases, or deaths, the special characters of the signs in which are the planets which produce the cause, with which we shall find more appropriate occasion to deal in the discussion of the nativity itself ²⁴, and furthermore we must observe by day particularly the sun and Venus, and by night Saturn and the moon. For the rest, in carrying out these particular inquiries, it would be fitting and consistent to set up the paternal or maternal place of the sect as a horoscope ²⁵ and investigate the remaining topics as though it were a nativity of the parents themselves, following the procedure for the investigation of the general classifications, both practical and casual, the headings of which will be set forth in the following.

     However, both here and everywhere it is well to recall the mode of mixture of the planets, and, if it happens that the planets which rule the places under inquiry are not of one kind but different, or bring about opposite effects, we should aim to discover which ones have most claims, from the ways in which they happen to exceed in power in a particular case, to the rulership of the predicted events. This is in order that we may either guide our inquiry by the natures of these planets, or, if the claims of more than one are of equal weight, when the rulers are together, we may successfully calculate the combined result of the mixture of their different natures; but when they are separated; that we may assign to each in turn at their proper times the events which belong to them, first to the more oriental among them and then to the occidental.

     For a planet must from the beginning have familiarity with the place about which the inquiry is made, if it is going to exercise any effect upon it, and in general, if this is not the case, a planet which had no share whatsoever in the beginning can exert no great influence; of the time of the occurrence of the event, however, the original dominance is no longer the cause, but the distance of the planet which dominates in any way from the sun and from the angles of the universe.

6. Περὶ ἀδελφῶν

     Ὁ μὲν οὖν περὶ γονέων τόπος σχεδὸν καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων ἂν ἡμῖν γένοιτο καταφανής, ὁ δὲ περὶ ἀδελφῶν εἴ τις καὶ ἐνταῦθα τὸ καθόλου μόνον ἐξετάζοιτο καὶ μὴ πέρα τοῦ δυνατοῦ τόν τε ἀριθμὸν ἀκριβῶς καὶ κατὰ μέρος ἐπιζητοίη, λαμβάνοιτο ἂν φυσικώτερον ὅ τε περὶ ὁμομητρίων μόνον ἀπὸ τοῦ μεσουρανοῦντος δωδεκατημορίου τοῦ μητρικοῦ τόπου, τουτέστι τοῦ περιέχοντος ἡμέρας μὲν τὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, νυκτὸς δὲ τὴν σελήνην, ἐπειδήπερ τοῦτο τὸ ζῴδιον καὶ τὸ ἐπαναφερόμενον αὐτῷ γίνεται τῆς μητρὸς ὁ περὶ τέκνων τόπος ὁ αὐτὸς ὀφείλων εἶναι τῷ τοῦ γινομένου περὶ ἀδελφῶν.

     Ἐὰν μὲν οὖν ἀγαθοποιοὶ τῷ τόπῳ συσχηματίζωνται, δαψίλειαν ἀδελφῶν ἐροῦμεν πρός τε τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν τῶν ἀστέρων τὸν στοχασμὸν ποιούμενοι, καὶ πότερον ἐν μονοειδέσι ζῳδίοις τυγχάνουσι ἢ ἐν δισώμοις. ἐὰν δὲ οἱ κακοποιοὶ καθυπερτερῶσιν αὐτὸν ἢ καὶ ἐναντιωθῶσι κατὰ διάμετρον, σπαναδελφίας εἰσι δηλωτικοί, μάλιστα δὲ κἂν τὸν ἥλιον συμπαραλαμβάνωσι. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν κέντρων ἡ ἐναντίωσις γένοιτο, καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ ὡροσκοποῦντος, ἐπὶ μὲν Κρόνου καὶ πρωτότοκοι ἢ πρωτότροφοι γίγνονται, ἐπὶ δὲ Ἄρεως θανάτῳ τῶν λοιπῶν σπαναδελφοῦσιν.

     Ἔτι μέντοι τῶν διδόντων ἀστέρων, ἐὰν μὲν καλῶς κατὰ τὸ κοσμικὸν τυγχάνωσι διακείμενοι, εὐσχήμονας καὶ ἐνδόξους ἡγητέον τοὺς διδομένους ἀδελφούς, ἐὰν δὲ ἐναντίως ταπεινοὺς καὶ ἀνεπιφάντους, ἐὰν δὲ καθυπερτερήσωσι τοὺς διδόντας ἢ ἐπανενεχθῶσιν αὐτοῖς οἱ κακοποιοὶ καὶ ὀλιγοχρονίους· δώσουσι δὲ τοὺς μὲν ἄρρενας οἱ κοσμικῶς ἠρρενωμένοι, τὰς δὲ θηλείας οἱ τεθηλυσμένοι, καὶ πάλιν τοὺς μὲν πρώτους οἱ ἀπηλιωτικώτεροι τοὺς δὲ ὑστέρους οἱ λιβικώτεροι. Πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐὰν οἱ διδόντες τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς συμφώνως ἐσχηματισμένοι τυγχάνωσι τῷ κυριεύοντι τοῦ περὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν δωδεκατημορίου, προσφιλεῖς ποιήσουσι τοὺς διδομένους ἀδελφούς, ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τῷ κλήρῳ τῆς τύχης, καὶ κοινωνοὺς βίου, ἐὰν δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἀσυνδέτοις τύχωσιν ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἐναντίαν στάσιν, φιλέχθρους καὶ φθονεροὺς καὶ ὡς ἐπίπαν ἐπιβουλευτικούς.

     Λοιπὸν δὲ καὶ τὰ καθ’ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν εἴ τις ἐπιπολυπραγμονοίη, συνεικάζοιτο ἂν καὶ ἐνταῦθα πάλιν τοῦ διδόντος ἀστέρος ὑποτιθεμένου κατὰ τὸν ὡροσκοπικὸν λόγον καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ὡς ἐπὶ γενέσεως συνθεωρουμένων.

6. Of Brothers and Sisters

     The preceding may perhaps have made clear the topic of the parents. As for that of brethren, if here too one examines only the general subject and does not carry beyond the bounds of possibility his inquiry as to the exact number and other particulars, it is more naturally to be taken, when it is a question of blood-brethren alone, from the culminating sign, the place of the mother ²⁶, that is, that which contains by day Venus and by night the moon; for in this sign and that which succeeds it is the place of the children of the mother, which should be the same as the place of the brethren of the offspring.

     If, then, beneficent planets bear an aspect to this place, we shall predict an abundance of brethren, basing our conjecture upon the number of the planets and whether they are in signs of a simple or of a bicorporeal form. But if the malevolent planets overcome them or oppose them in opposition, they signify a dearth of brethren, especially if they have the sun among them. If the opposition is at the angles, and especially at the horoscope ²⁷, in case Saturn is in the ascendant, they are the first-born or the first to be reared; in case it is Mars, there is a small number of brethren by reason of the death of the others.

     If the planets which give brethren are in a favourable mundane ²⁸ position, we must believe that the brethren thereby given will be elegant and distinguished; if the reverse is the case, humble and inconspicuous. But if the maleficent planets overcome those that give brethren, or rise after them, the brethren will also be short-lived; and the male planets in the mundane sense ²⁹ will give males, the female females; again, those farther to the east the first and those farther to the west the later-born. Besides this, if the planets that give brethren are in harmonious aspect with the planet that rules the place of brethren ³⁰, they will make the given brethren friendly, and will also make them live together, if they are in harmonious aspect with the Lot of Fortune ³¹; but if they are in disjunct signs or in opposition, they will produce quarrelsome, jealous, and for the most part, scheming brethren.

     Finally, if one would busy himself with further inquiries about details concerning individuals, he might in this case again make his conjecture by taking the planet which gives brethren as the horoscope and dealing with the rest as in a nativity.

7. Περὶ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν

     Ὑπ’ ὄψιν ἤδη καὶ τοῦ περὶ ἀδελφῶν λόγου κατὰ τὸν ἁρμόζοντα καὶ φυσικὸν λόγον ἡμῖν γεγονότος ἑξῆς ἂν εἴη τῶν κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν γένεσιν ἄρξασθαι καὶ πρῶτον ἐπιδραμεῖν τὸν περὶ ἀρρενικῶν τε καὶ θηλυκῶν ἐπιλογισμόν. Θεωρεῖται δ’ οὗτος οὐ μονοειδῶς οὐδ’ ἀφ’ ἑνός τινος, ἀλλ’ ἀπό τε τῶν φώτων ἀμφοτέρων καὶ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου, τῶν τε λόγον ἐχόντων πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἀστέρων, μάλιστα μὲν κατὰ τὴν τῆς σπορᾶς διάθεσιν, ὁλοσχερέστερον δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὴν τῆς ἐκτροπῆς. Τὸ δ’ ὅλον παρατηρητέον, πότερον οἱ προειρημένοι τρεῖς τόποι καὶ οἱ τούτων οἰκοδεσποτοῦντες ἀστέρες ἅπαντες ἢ οἱ πλεῖστοι τυγχάνουσιν ἠρρενωμένοι πρὸς ἀρρενογονίαν ἢ τεθηλυσμένοι πρὸς θηλυγονίαν καὶ οὕτως ἀποφαντέον.

     Διακριτέον μέντοι τοὺς ἠρρενωμένους καὶ τεθηλυσμένους, καθ’ ὃν ὑπεθέμεθα τρόπον ἐν ταῖς πινακικαῖς ἐκθέσεσιν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς συντάξεως, ἀπό τε τῆς τῶν δωδεκατημορίων, ἐν οἷς εἰσι, φύσεως, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῶν τῶν ἀστέρων καὶ ἔτι ἀπὸ τῆς πρὸς τὸν κόσμον σχέσεως, ἐπειδήπερ ἀπηλιωτικοὶ μὲν ὄντες ἀρρενοῦνται, λιβικοὶ δὲ θηλύνονται, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἀπὸ τῆς πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον, ἑῷοι μὲν γὰρ πάλιν ὄντες ἀρρενοῦνται, θηλύνονται δὲ ἑσπέριοι· δι’ ὧν πάντων τὴν κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον ἐπικράτησιν τοῦ γένους προσήκει καταστοχάζεσθαι.

7. Of Males and Females

     Now that the topic of brethren has been brought before our eyes in suitable and natural fashion, the next step would be to begin the discussion of matters directly concerned with the birth, and first to treat of the reckoning of males and females. This is determined by no simple theory based upon some one thing, but it depends upon the two luminaries, the horoscope, and the stars which bear some relation to them, particularly by their disposition at the time of conception, but more generally also by that at the time of the birth. The whole situation must be observed, whether the aforesaid three places and the planets which rule them are either all or the most of them masculine, to produce males, or feminine, to produce females, and to produce females, and on this basis the decision must be made.

     We must however distinguish the male and the female planets in the way set forth by us in the tabular series in the beginning of this compilation ³², from the nature of the signs in which they are, and from the nature of the planets themselves, and furthermore from their position with reference to the universe, since they become masculine when they are in the east and feminine in the west; and besides, from their relation to the sun, for again when they rise in the morning they are made masculine, and feminine when they rise in the evening. By means of all these criteria one must conjecture what planet exercises preponderating control over the sex.

8. Περὶ διδυμογόνων

     Καὶ περὶ τῶν γεννωμένων δὲ ὁμοίως ἀνὰ δύο ἢ καὶ πλειόνων τοὺς αὐτοὺς τόπους παρατηρεῖν προσήκει τουτέστι τάδε δύο φῶτα καὶ τὸν ὡροσκόπον. Παρακολουθεῖν δὲ εἴωθε τοῦτο τὸ σύμπτωμα παρὰ τὰς κράσεις, ὅταν οἱ δύο ἢ καὶ οἱ τρεῖς τόποι δίσωμα περιέχωσι ζῴδια, καὶ μάλιστα, ὅταν καὶ οἱ οἰκοδεσποτίζοντες αὐτῶν ἀστέρες τὸ αὐτὸ πάθωσιν, ἤ τινες μὲν ἐν δισώμοις, τινὲς δὲ ἀνὰ δύο κείμενοι τυγχάνωσιν ἢ πλείους. Ἐπὰν δὲ καὶ ἐν δισώμοις ὦσιν οἱ κύριοι τόποι καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ πλείονες τῶν ἀστέρων συνεσχηματισμένοι, τότε καὶ πλείονα τῶν δύο κυΐσκεσθαι συμπίπτει, τοῦ μὲν πλήθους ἀπὸ τοῦ τὸ ἰδίωμα ποιοῦντος ἀστέρος τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ συνεικαζομένου τοῦ δὲ γένους ἀπὸ τοῦ τῶν συνεσχηματισμένων ἀστέρων τῷ τε ἡλίῳ καὶ τῇ σελήνῃ καὶ τῷ ὡροσκόπῳ προσώπου πρὸς ἀρρενογονίαν ἢ θηλυγονίαν κατὰ τοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν εἰρημένους τρόπους.

     Ὅταν δὲ ἡ τοιαύτη διάθεσις μὴ συμπεριλαμβάνῃ τοῖς φωσὶ τὸ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου κέντρον ἀλλὰ τὸ τοῦ μεσουρανήματος, αἱ τοιαῦται τῶν μητέρων δίδυμα ὡς ἐπίπαν ἢ καὶ πλείονα κυΐσκουσιν· ἰδίως δὲ τρεῖς μὲν ἄρρενας πληροφοροῦσιν ὑπὸ τὴν τῶν Ἀνακτόρων γένεσιν ἅμα τοῖς προκειμένοις τόποις ἐν δισώμοις συσχηματισθέντες Κρόνος Ζεὺς Ἄρης, τρεῖς δὲ θηλείας ὑπὸ τὴν τῶν Χαρίτων Ἀφροδίτη σελήνη μεθ’ Ἑρμοῦ τεθηλυσμένου, δύο δὲ ἄρρενας καὶ μίαν θήλειαν ὑπὸ τὴν τῶν Διοσκούρων Κρόνος Ζεὺς Ἀφροδίτη, δύο δὲ θηλείας καὶ ἄρρενα ἕνα ὑπὸ τὴν Δήμητρος καὶ Κόρης Ἀφροδίτη, σελήνη, Ἄρης, ἐφ’ ὧν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ συμβαίνειν εἴωθε τό τε μὴ τελεσφορεῖσθαι τὰ γινόμενα καὶ τὸ μετὰ παρασήμων τινῶν σωματικῶν ἀποκυΐσκεσθαι καὶ ἔτι τὸ γίγνεσθαί τινα τοῖς τόποις ἐξαίρετα καὶ ἀπροσδόκητα διὰ τὴς τῶν τοιούτων συμπτωμάτων ὥσπερ ἐπιφανείας.

8. Of Twins

     Likewise with regard to the births of two or even more, it is fitting to observe the same two places, that is, the two luminaries and the horoscope. For such an event is apt to attend the intermixture ³³ when either two or the three places ³⁴ cover bicorporeal signs, and particularly when the same is true of the planets that rule them, or when some are in bicorporeal signs, and some are disposed in pairs or in larger groups. But when both the dominant places are in bicorporeal signs and most of the planets are similarly configurated, then it befalls that even more than two are conceived, for the number is conjectured from the star that causes the peculiar property of the number ³⁵, and the sex from the aspects which the planets have with respect to the sun and the moon and the horoscope for the production of males or of females, in accordance with the ways stated above ³⁶.

     But whenever such an arrangement of the planets does not include the horoscopic angle with the luminaries, but rather that of the mid-heaven, mothers with such genitures generally conceive twins or even more; and in particular, they give multiple birth, to three males, by the geniture of the Kings ³⁷, when Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are in bicorporeal signs and bear same aspect to the aforesaid places; and to three females, by the geniture of the Graces, when Venus and the moon, with Mercury made feminine, are so arranged; to two males and One female, by the geniture of the Dioscuri, when Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus are so ordered, and to two females and a male, by the geniture of Demeter and Korê ³⁸, when Venus, the moon, and Mars are thus ordered. In these cases it generally happens that the children are not completely developed and are born with certain bodily marks, and again the governing places may bear certain unusual and surprising marks by reason of the divine manifestation, as it were, of such portents.

9. Περὶ τεράτων

     Οὐκ ἀλλότριος δὲ τῆς προκειμένης σκέψεως οὐδ’ ὁ περὶ τῶν τεράτων λόγος. Πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν τοιούτων τὰ μὲν φῶτα ἀποκεκλικότα ἢ ἀσύνδετα τῷ ὡροσκόπῳ κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον εὑρίσκεται, τὰ δὲ κέντρα διειλημμένα ὑπὸ τῶν κακοποιῶν. Ὅταν οὖν τοιαύτη τις ὑπ’ ὄψιν πέσῃ διάθεσις, ἐπειδὴ γίνεται πολλάκις καὶ περὶ τὰς ταπεινὰς καὶ κακοδαίμονας γενέσεις, κἂν μὴ τερατώδεις ὦσιν, εὐθὺς ἐπισκοπεῖν προσήκει τὴν προγενομένην συζυγίαν συνοδικὴν ἢ πανσεληνιακὴν καὶ τὸν οἰκοδεσποτήσαντα ταύτης τε καὶ τῶν τῆς ἐκτροπῆς φώτων.

     Ἐὰν γὰρ οἱ τῆς ἐκτροπῆς αὐτῶν τόποι καὶ ὁ τῆς σελήνης καὶ ὁ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου πάντες ἢ οἱ πλείονες ἀσύνδετοι τυγχάνωσιν ὄντες τῷ τῆς προγενομένης συζυγίας τόπῳ, τὸ γεννώμενον αἰνιγματῶδες ὑπονοητέον. Ἐὰν μὲν οὖν τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων τά τε φῶτα ἐν τετράποσιν ἢ θηριώδεσιν εὑρίσκηται ζῳδίοις καὶ οἱ δύο κεκεντρωμένοι τῶν κακοποιῶν, οὐδὲ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔσται τὸ γεννώμενον, μηδενὸς μὲν μαρτυροῦντος τοῖς φωσὶν τῶν ἀγαθαποιῶν τέλεον ἀνήμερον καὶ τῶν ἀγρίαν καὶ κακωτικὴν ἐχόντων φύσιν, μαρτυρούντων δὲ Διὸς ἢ Ἀφροδίτης τῶν ἐκθειαζομένων, οἷον κυνῶν ἢ αἰλούρων ἢ πιθήκων ἢ τῶν τοιούτων, Ἑρμοῦ δὲ τῶν εἰς χρείαν ἀνθρωπίνην, οἷον ὀρνίθων ἢ συῶν ἢ βοῶν ἢ αἰγῶν καὶ τῶν τοιούτων.

     Ἐὰν δὲ ἐν ἀνθρωποειδέσι τὰ φῶτα καταλαμβάνηται τῶν ἄλλων ὡσαύτως ἐχόντων, ὑπ’ ἀνθρώπων μὲν ἢ παρ’ ἀνθρώποις ἔσται τὰ γεγενημένα, τέρατα δὲ καὶ αἰνιγματώδη, τῆς κατὰ τὸ ποῖον ἰδιότητος καὶ ἐνταῦθα συνορωμένης ἐκ τῆς τῶν ζῳδίων μορφώσεως, ἐν οἷς οἱ διειληφότες τὰ φῶτα ἢ τὰ κέντρα κακοποιοὶ τυγχάνουσι. Ἐὰν μὲν οὖν καὶ ἐνταῦθα μηδὲ εἷς τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἀστέρων προσμαρτυρῇ μηδενὶ τῶν προειρημένων τόπων, ἄλογα καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς αἰνιγματώδη γίνεται τέλεον· ἐὰν δὲ ὁ τοῦ Διὸς ἢ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης μαρτυρήσῃ, τιμώμενον καὶ εὔσχημον ἔσται τὸ τοῦ τέρατος ἴδιον, ὁποῖον περὶ τοὺς ἑρμαφροδίτους ἢ τοὺς καλουμένους ἁρποκρατικοὺς καὶ τοὺς τοιούτους εἴωθε συμβαίνειν, εἰ δὲ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ μαρτυρήσῃ, μετὰ τούτων μὲν καὶ ἀποφθεγγομένους καὶ διὰ τῶν τοιούτων ποριστικούς, μόνος δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ νωδοὺς καὶ κωφούς, εὐφυεῖς μέντοι καὶ πανούργους ἄλλως ἀπεργάζεται.

9. Of Monsters

     The subject of monsters is not foreign to the present inquiry; for, in the first place, in such cases the luminaries are, found to be as far as possible removed from the horoscope or in no way related to it, and the angles ³⁹ are separated by the maleficent planets. Whenever, then, such a disposition is observed, for it frequently occurs in humble and unlucky nativities, even though they are not the genitures of monsters, one should at once look for the last preceding new or full moon, and the lord of this and of the luminaries of the birth.

     For if the places of the birth, of the moon, and of the horoscope, all or the majority of them, happen to be unrelated to the place of the preceding syzygy, it must be supposed that the child will be nondescript. Now if, under such conditions, the luminaries are found in four-footed or animal-shaped ⁴⁰ signs, and the two maleficent planets are centred, the child will not even belong to the human race, but if no beneficent planet witnesses to the luminaries, but the maleficent planets do so, it will be completely savage, an animal with wild and harmful nature; but if Jupiter or Venus witness, it will be one of the kinds regarded as sacred, as for example dogs, cats ⁴¹, and the like; if Mercury witnesses, one of those that are of use to man, such as birds, swine, oxen, goats, and the like.

     If the luminaries are found in signs of human form, but the other planets are disposed in the same way, what is born will be, indeed, of the human race or to be classed with humans, but monsters and nondescript in qualitative character, and their qualities in this case too are to be observed from the form of the signs in which the maleficent planets which separate the luminaries or the angles happen to be. Now if even in this case not one of the beneficent planets bears witness to any of the places mentioned, the offspring are entirely irrational and in the true sense of the word nondescript; but if Jupiter or Venus bears witness, the type of monster will be honoured and seemly, such as is usually the case with hermaphrodites or the so–called harpocratiacs ⁴², and the like. If Mercury should bear witness, along with the foregoing, this disposition produces prophets who also make money thereby; but when alone, Mercury makes them toothless and deaf and dumb, though otherwise clever and cunning.

10. Περὶ ἀτρόφων

     Λοιποῦ δὲ ὄντος εἰς τὰ κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν γένεσιν τοῦ περὶ ἀτρόφων λόγου προσήκει διαλαβεῖν, ὅτι πῇ μὲν ὁ τρόπος οὗτος ἔχεται τοῦ περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς λόγου, ἐπειδὴ τὸ ζητούμενον εἶδος οὐκ ἀλλότριον ἑκατέρου, πῇ δὲ κεχώρισται παρὰ τὸ κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν τῆς ἐπισκέψεως δύναμιν διαφέρειν πως. Ὁ μὲν γὰρ περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς ἐπὶ τῶν ὅλως ἐχόντων χρόνους αἰσθητοὺς θεωρεῖται, τουτέστι μὴ ἐλάττονας ἡλιακῆς περιόδου μιᾶς· χρόνος γὰρ ἰδίως ὁ τοιοῦτος ἐνιαυτὸς καταλαμβάνεται, δυνάμει δὲ καὶ ὁ ἐλάττων τούτου, μῆνές εἰσι καὶ ἡμέραι καὶ ὧραι· ὁ δὲ περὶ τῶν ἀτρόφων ἐπὶ τῶν μηδ’ ὅλως φθανόντων ἐπὶ τὸν προκείμενον χρόνον ἀλλ’ ἐν τοῖς ἐλάττοσιν ἀριθμοῖς δι’ ὑπερβολὴν τῆς κακώσεως φθειρομένων.

     Ἔνθεν κἀκεῖνος μὲν πολυμερεστέραν ἔχει τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν, οὗτος δὲ ὁλοσχερεστέραν. Ἁπλῶς γάρ, ἐάν τε κεκεντρωμένον ᾖ τὸ ἕτερον τῶν φώτων, καὶ τῶν κακοποιῶν ὁ ἕτερος συνῇ ἢ διαμηκίζῃ, ταῦτα δὲ μοιρικῶς καὶ κατ’ ἰσοσκελίαν μηδενὸς μὲν ἀγαθοποιοῦ συσχηματιζομένου, τοῦ δὲ οἰκοδεσπότου τῶν φώτων ἐν τοῖς τῶν κακοποιῶν τόποις κατειλημμένου, τὸ γεννώμενον οὐ τραφήσεται, παρ’ αὐτὰ δὲ ἕξει τὸ τέλος τῆς ζωῆς·

     Ἐὰν δὲ μὴ κατ’ ἰσοσκελίαν μὲν τοῦτο συμβαίνῃ, ἀλλ’ ἐγγὺς ἐπαναφέρωνται τοῖς τῶν φώτων τόποις αἱ τῶν κακοποιῶν βολαί, δύο δὲ ὦσιν οἱ κακοποιοὶ καὶ ἤτοι τὸ ἕτερον τῶν φώτων ἢ καὶ ἀμφότερα βλάπτοντες ἢ κατὰ ἐπαναφορὰν ἢ κατὰ διάμετρον ἢ ἐν μέρει τὸ ἕτερον ὁ ἕτερος, ἢ ὁ μὲν ἕτερος διαμετρῶν ὁ δὲ ἕτερος ἐπαναφερόμενος, καὶ οὕτως ἄχρονα γίνεται τοῦ πλήθους τῶν κακώσεων ἀφανίζοντος τὸ ἐκ τοῦ διαστήματος τῆς ἐπαναφορᾶς εἰς ἐπιμονὴν τῆς ζωῆς φιλάνθρωπον.

     Βλάπτει δὲ ἐξαιρέτως κατὰ μὲν τὰς ἐπαναφορὰς ἥλιον μὲν ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως, σελήνην δὲ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου, κατὰ δὲ τὰς διαμετρήσεις ἢ καθυπερτερήσεις ἀνάπαλιν ἥλιον μὲν ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου, σελήνην δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως, καὶ μάλιστα, ἐὰν κατάσχωσι τοπικῶς ἤτοι τὰ φῶτα ἢ τὸν ὡροσκόπον οἰκοδεσποτήσαντες. Ἐὰν δὲ δύο τυγχάνωσι διαμετρήσεις ἐπικέντρων ὄντων τῶν φώτων καὶ τῶν κακοποιῶν κατ’ ἰσοσκελίαν, τότε καὶ νεκρὰ ἢ ἡμιθανῆ τίκτεται τὰ βρέφη.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐὰν μὲν ἀπόρροιαν ἀπό τινος τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἔχοντα τὰ φῶτα τυγχάνῃ ἢ καὶ ἄλλως αὐτοῖς ᾖ συνεσχηματισμένα τοῖς προηγουμένοις ἑαυτῶν μέρεσι μέντοι γε τὰς ἀκτῖνας αὐτῶν ἐπιφερόντων, ἐπιζήσεται τὸ τεχθὲν ἄχρι τοῦ τῶν μεταξὺ τῆς τε ἀφέσεως καὶ τοῦ τῶν ἐγγυτέρων τῶν κακοποιῶν ἀκτίνων ἀριθμοῦ τῶν μοιρῶν τοὺς ἴσους μῆνας ἢ ἡμέρας ἢ καὶ ὥρας πρὸς τὸ μέγεθος τῆς κακώσεως καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τῶν τὸ αἴτιον ποιούντων.

     Ἐὰν δὲ αἱ μὲν τῶν κακοποιῶν ἀκτῖνες εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα φέρωνται τῶν φώτων, αἱ δὲ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα, τὸ γεννώμενον ἐκτεθὲν ἀναληφθήσεται καὶ ζήσεται, καὶ πάλιν, ἐὰν μὲν οἱ συσχηματισθέντες ἀγαθοποιοὶ καθυπερτερηθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν κακοποιῶν, εἰς κάκωσιν καὶ ὑποταγήν, ἐὰν δὲ καὶ καθυπετερήσωσιν, εἰς ὑποβολὴν ἄλλων γονέων.

     Εἰ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν τις ἀνατολὴν ἢ συναφὴν ποιοῖτο τῇ σελήνῃ, τῶν δὲ κακοποιῶν ὑπὸ δύσιν τις εἴη, ὑπ’ αὐτῶν τῶν γονέων ἀναληφθήσεται. Κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πλειστογονούντων, ἐὰν μὲν ὑπὸ δύσιν τις ᾖ τῶν κατὰ δύο ἢ καὶ πλείους συνεσχηματισμένων ἀστέρων, ἡμιθανές τε ἢ σάρκωμα καὶ ἀτελὲς τὸ γεννώμενον ἀποτεχθήσεται, ἐὰν δὲ ὑπὸ κακοποιῶν καθυπερτερῆται, ἄτροφον ἢ ἄχρονον ἔσται τὸ ὑπὸ τῆς κατ’ αὐτὸν αἰτίας συγγεγενημένον.

10. Of Children that are not Reared

     As the account of children that are not reared ⁴³ is still lacking in the discussion of matters related to the birth itself, it is fitting to see that in one way this procedure. is connected with the inquiry concerning length of life, for the question in each case is of the same kind; but in another way they are distinct, because there is a certain difference in the actual meaning of the inquiry. For the question of length of life considers those who in general endure for perceptible lengths of time, that is, not less than one circuit of the sun, and such a space is properly understood to be a year; but potentially also lesser periods than this, months and days and hours, are perceptible lengths of time. But the inquiry concerning children that are not reared refers to those who do not attain at all to “time” thus defined, but perish in something less than “time” through excess of the evil influence.

     For this reason the investigation of the former question is more complex; but this is simpler. For it is merely the case that if one of the luminaries is angular ⁴⁴ and one of the maleficent planets is in conjunction with it, or in opposition, both in degrees and with equality of distance ⁴⁵, while no beneficent planet bears any aspect, and if the lord of the luminaries ⁴⁶ is found in the places of the maleficent planets, the child that is born will not be reared, but will at once come to its end.

     But if this comes about without the equality of distance, but the shafts of the maleficent planets succeed closely upon the places of the luminaries, and there are two maleficent planets, and if they afflict ⁴⁷ either one or both of the luminaries either by succeeding them or by opposition, or if one afflicts one luminary and the other the other in turn, or if one afflicts by opposition and the other by succeeding the luminary, in this way too children are born that do not live; for the number of afflictions dispels all that is favourable to length of life because of the distance of the maleficent planet through its succession.

     Mars especially afflicts the sun by succeeding it, and Saturn the moon; but conversely in opposition or in superior position Saturn afflicts the sun and Mars the moon, most of all if they occupy as rulers the places of the luminaries or of the horoscope. But if there chance to be two oppositions, when the luminaries are at the angles and the maleficent planets are in an isosceles configuration, then the infants are born dead or half-dead.

     And in such circumstances, if the luminaries should chance to be removing from conjunction with one of the beneficent planets, or are in some other aspect to them, but nevertheless east their rays in the parts that precede them, the child that is born will live a number of months or days, or even hours, equal to the number of degrees between the prorogator ⁴⁸ and the nearest rays of the maleficent planets, in proportion to the greatness of the affliction and the power of the planets ruling the cause.

     But if the rays of the maleficent planets fall before the luminaries, and those of the beneficent behind them, the child that has been exposed will be taken up and will live. And again, if the maleficent planets overcome ⁴⁹ the beneficent ones that bear an aspect upon the geniture, they will live to affliction and subjection; but if the beneficent planets overcome, they will live but as supposititious children of other parents; and if one of the beneficent planets should either be rising or applying ⁵⁰ to the moon, while one of the maleficent planets is setting, they will be reared by their own parents.

     And the same methods of judgement are to be used also in cases of multiple births. But if one of the planets that two by two or in larger groups bear an aspect to the geniture is at setting, the child will be born half-dead, or a mere lump of flesh, and imperfect. But if the maleficent planets overcome them, the infant born subject to this influence will not be reared or will not survive.

11. Περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς

     Τῶν δὲ μετὰ τὴν γένεσιν συμπτωμάτων ἡγεῖται μὲν ὁ περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς λόγος, ἐπειδήπερ κατὰ τὸν ἀρχαῖον γελοῖόν ἐστι τὰ καθ’ ἕκαστα τῶν ἀποτελουμένων ἐφαρμόζειν τῷ μηδ’ ὅλως ἐκ τῆς τῶν βιωσίμων ἐτῶν ὑποστάσεως ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀποτελεστικοὺς αὐτῶν χρόνους ἥξοντι. Θεωρεῖται δὲ οὗτος οὐχ ἁπλῶς οὐδ’ ἀπολελυμένως, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν κυριωτάτων τόπων ἐπικρατήσεως πολυμερῶς λαμβανόμενος.

     Ἔστι δ’ ὁ μάλιστά τε συμφωνῶν ἡμῖν καὶ ἄλλως ἐχόμενος φύσεως τρόπος τοιοῦτος. Ἤρτηται μὲν γὰρ τὸ πᾶν ἔκ τε τῆς τῶν ἀφετικῶν τόπων διαλήψεως καὶ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῶν τῶν τῆς ἀφέσεως ἐπικρατούντων καὶ ἔτι ἐκ τῆς τῶν ἀναιρετικῶν τόπων ἢ ἀστέρων. Διακρίνεται δὲ τούτων ἕκαστον οὕτως.

     Τόπους μὲν πρῶτον ἡγητέον ἀφετικοὺς ἐν οἷς εἶναι δεῖ πάντως τὸν μέλλοντα τὴν κυρείαν τῆς ἀφέσεως λαμβάνειν τό τε περὶ τὸν ὡροσκόπον δωδεκατημόριον, ἀπὸ πέντε μοιρῶν τῶν προαναφερομένων αὐτοῦ τοῦ ὁρίζοντος μέχρι τῶν λοιπῶν καὶ ἐπαναφερομένων μοιρῶν εἴκοσι πέντε καὶ τὰς ταύταις ταῖς λ′ μοίραις δεξιὰς ἑξαγώνους τὰς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ δαίμονος καὶ τετραγώνους τοῦ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουρανήματος καὶ τριγώνους τοῦ καλουμένου θεοῦ καὶ διαμέτρους τοῦ δύνοντος, προκρινομένων καὶ ἐν τούτοις εἰς δύναμιν ἐπικρατήσεως πρῶτον μὲν τῶν κατὰ τὸ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουράνημα, εἶτα τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀνατολήν, εἶτα τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἐπαναφορὰν τοῦ μεσουρανήματος, εἶτα τῶν κατὰ τὸ δῦνον, εἶτα τῶν κατὰ τὸ προηγούμενον τοῦ μεσουρανήματος.

     Τό τε γὰρ ὑπὸ γῆν πᾶν εἰκότως ἀθετητέον πρὸς τὴν τηλικαύτην κυρείαν πλὴν μόνων τῶν παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν ἐπαναφορὰν εἰς φῶς ἐρχομένων, τοῦ τε ὑπὲρ γῆν οὔτε τὸ ἀσύνδετον τῷ ἀνατέλλοντι δωδεκατημόριον ἁρμόζει παραλαμβάνειν, οὔτε τὸ προανατεῖλαν, ὃ καλεῖται τοῦ κακοῦ δαίμονος, ἐπειδήπερ κακοῖ τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἀπόρροιαν τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ ἀστέρων μετὰ τοῦ καὶ ἀποκεκλικέναι, θολοῖ καὶ ὥσπερ ἀφανίζει τὸ ἀναθυμιώμενον ἐκ τῶν τῆς γῆς ὑγρῶν παχὺ καὶ ἀχλυῶδες, παρ’ ὃ καὶ τοῖς χρώμασι καὶ τοῖς μεγέθεσιν οὐ κατὰ φύσιν ἔχοντες φαίνονται.

     Μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πάλιν ἀφέτας παραληπτέον τούς τε κυριωτάτους τέσσαρας τόπους, ἥλιον, σελήνην, ὡροσκόπον, κλῆρον τύχης, καὶ τοὺς τούτων οἰκοδεσποτήσαντας, κλῆρον μέντοι τύχης τὸν συναγόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ πάντοτε καὶ νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας τοῦ ἀπὸ ἡλίου ἐπὶ σελήνην καὶ τὰ ἴσα φέροντος ἀπὸ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου κατὰ τὰ ἑπόμενα τῶν ζῳδίων, ἵνα ὃν ἔχει λόγον καὶ σχηματισμὸν ὁ ἥλιος πρὸς τὸν ὡροσκόπον, τοῦτον ἔχῃ καὶ ἡ σελήνη πρὸς τὸν κλῆρον τῆς τύχης καὶ ᾖ ὥσπερ σεληνιακὸς ὡροσκόπος. Ἴσως δὲ αὐτὸ τοῦτο θέλει τε καὶ δύναται παρὰ τῷ συγγραφεῖ τὸ τοῖς νυκτὸς γεννωμένοις ἀπὸ σελήνης ἐπὶ ἥλιον ἀριθμεῖν καὶ ἀνάπαλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὡροσκόπου, τουτέστιν εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα, διεκβάλλειν· καὶ οὕτως γὰρ κἀκεῖνος ὁ αὐτὸς τόπος τοῦ κλήρου καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς τοῦ συσχηματισμοῦ λόγος ἐκβήσεται.

     Προκριτέον δὲ καὶ ἐκ τούτων ἡμέρας μὲν πρῶτον τὸν ἥλιον, ἐάνπερ ᾖ ἐν τοῖς ἀφετικοῖς τόποις, εἰ δὲ μή, τὴν σελήνην, εἰ δὲ μή, τὸν πλείους ἔχοντα λόγους οἰκοδεσποτείας πρός τε τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν προγενομένην σύνοδον καὶ πρὸς τὸν ὡροσκόπον, τουτέστιν ὅταν τῶν οἰκοδεσποτικῶν τρόπων ε′ ὄντων τρεῖς ἔχῃ πρὸς ἕνα ἢ καὶ πλείους τῶν εἰρημένων, εἰ δὲ μή, τελευταῖον τὸν ὡροσκόπον, νυκτὸς δὲ πρῶτον τὴν σελήνην, εἶτα τὸν ἥλιον, εἶτα τὸν πλείους ἔχοντα λόγους οἰκοδεσποτείας πρός τε τὴν σελήνην καὶ πρὸς τὴν γενομένην πανσέληνον καὶ τὸν κλῆρον τῆς τύχης, εἰ δὲ μή, τελευταῖον συνοδικῆς μὲν οὔσης τῆς προγενομένης συζυγίας τὸν ὡροσκόπον, πανσεληνιακῆς δὲ τὸν κλῆρον τῆς τύχης. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἀμφότερα τὰ φῶτα ἢ καὶ ὁ τῆς οἰκείας αἱρέσεως οἰκοδεσπότης ἐν τοῖς ἀφετικοῖς εἶεν τόποις, τὸν ἐν τῷ κυριωτέρῳ τόπῳ τῶν φώτων παραληπτέον, τότε δὲ μόνον τὸν οἰκοδεσπότην ἀμφοτέρων προκριτέον, ὅταν καὶ κυριώτερον ἐπέχῃ τόπον καὶ πρὸς ἀμφοτέρας τὰς αἱρέσεις οἰκοδεσποτείας λόγον ἔχῃ.

     Τοῦ δὲ ἀφέτου διακριθέντος ἔτι καὶ τῶν ἀφέσεων δύο τρόπους παραληπτέον, τόν τε εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα μόνον τῶν ζῳδίων ὑπὸ τὴν καλουμένην ἀκτινοβολίαν, ὅταν ἐν τοῖς ἀπηλιωτικοῖς τόποις, τουτέστι τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ μεσουρανήματος ἐπὶ τὸν ὡροσκόπον τόποις, ᾖ ὁ ἀφέτης, καὶ τὸν οὐ μόνον εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα κατὰ τὴν λεγομένην ὡριμαίαν, ὅταν ἐν τοῖς ἀποκεκλικόσι τοῦ μεσουρανήματος τόποις ᾖ ὁ ἀφέτης.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων ἀναιρετικαὶ γίγνονται μοῖραι κατὰ μὲν τὴν εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα τῶν ζῳδίων ἄφεσιν ἡ τοῦ δυτικοῦ ὁρίζοντος μόνη διὰ τὸ ἀφανίζειν τὸν κύριον τῆς ζωῆς, αἱ δὲ τῶν οὕτως ὑπαντώντων ἢ μαρτυρούντων ἀστέρων ἀφαιροῦσι μόνον καὶ προστιθέασιν ἔτη τοῖς μέχρι τῆς καταδύσεως τοῦ ἀφέτου συναγομένοις καὶ οὐκ ἀναιροῦσι διὰ τὸ μὴ αὐτοὺς ἐπιφέρεσθαι τῷ ἀφετικῷ τόπῳ ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον τοῖς αὐτῶν. Καὶ προστιθέασιν μὲν οἱ ἀγαθοποιοί, ἀφαιροῦσι δὲ οἱ κακοποιοί, τοῦ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πάλιν ὁποτέροις ἂν αὐτῶν συσχηματισθῇ προστιθεμένου. Ὁ δὲ ἀριθμὸς τῆς προσθέσεως ἢ ἀφαιρέσεως θεωρεῖται διὰ τῆς καθ’ ἕκαστον μοιροθεσίας· ὅσοι γὰρ ἂν ὦσιν ὡριαῖοι χρόνοι τῆς ἑκάστου μοίρας, ἡμέρας μὲν οὔσης οἱ τῆς ἡμέρας, νυκτὸς δὲ οἱ τῆς νυκτός, τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ἐτῶν ἔσται τὸ τέλειον· ὅπερ ἐπὶ τῆς ἀνατολῆς αὐτῶν ὄντων λογιστέον, εἶτα κατὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον τῆς ἀποχωρήσεως ὑφαιρετέον, ἕως ἂν πρὸς τὰς δυσμὰς εἰς τὸ μηδὲν καταντήσῃ.

     Κατὰ δὲ τὴν εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα τῶν ζῳδίων ἄφεσιν ἀναιροῦσιν οἵ τε τῶν κακοποιῶν τόποι Κρόνου καὶ Ἄρεως ἤτοι σωματικῶς ὑπαντώντων ἢ ἀκτῖνα ἐπιφερόντων ὅθεν δήποτε τετράγωνον ἢ διάμετρον, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀκουόντων ἢ βλεπόντων κατ’ ἰσοδυναμίαν ἑξαγώνων, καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ τῷ ἀφετικῷ τόπῳ τετράγωνος ἀπὸ τῶν ἑπομένων, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν πολυχρονούντων δωδεκατημορίων κακωθεὶς ὁ ἑξάγωνος, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ὀλιγοχρονίων ὁ τρίγωνος σελήνης δὲ ἀφιείσης καὶ ὁ τοῦ ἡλίου τόπος·

     Ἰσχύουσι γὰρ αἱ κατὰ τὴν τοιαύτην ἄφεσιν ὑπαντήσεις καὶ ἀναιρεῖν καὶ σῴζειν, ἐπειδὴ αὗται τῷ τοῦ ἀφέτου τόπῳ ἐπιφέρονται. Οὐ πάντοτε μέντοι τούτους τοὺς τόπους καὶ πάντως ἀναιρεῖν ἡγητέον, ἀλλὰ μόνον ὅταν ὦσι κεκακωμένοι· παραποδίζονται γάρ, ἐάν τε εἰς ἀγαθοποιοῦ ὅριον ἐμπέσωσιν, ἐάν τέ τις τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἀκτῖνα συνεπιφέρῃ τετράγωνον ἢ τρίγωνον ἢ διάμετρον ἤτοι πρὸς αὐτὴν τὴν ἀναιρετικὴν μοῖραν ἢ εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα αὐτῆς, ἐπὶ μὲν Διὸς μὴ ὑπὲρ τὰς δώδεκα μοίρας, ἐπὶ δὲ Ἀφροδίτης μὴ ὑπὲρ τὰς ὀκτώ, ἐάν τε σωμάτων ὄντων ἀμφοτέρων τοῦ τε ἀφιέντος καὶ τοῦ ὑπαντῶντος μὴ τὸ αὐτὸ πλάτος ᾖ ἀμφοτέρων.

     Ὅταν οὖν δύο ἢ πλείονα ᾖ ἑκατέρωθεν τά τε βοηθοῦντα καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸ ἐναντίον ἀναιροῦντα, σκεπτέον τὴν ἐπικράτησιν ὁποτέρου τῶν εἰδῶν κατά τε τὸ πλῆθος τῶν συλλαμβανομένων αὐτοῖς καὶ κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν, κατὰ μὲν τὸ πλῆθος, ὅταν αἰσθητῶς πλείονα ᾖ τὰ ἕτερα τῶν ἑτέρων, κατὰ δύναμιν δέ, ὅταν τῶν βοηθούντων ἢ ἀναιρούντων ἀστέρων οἱ μὲν ἐν οἰκείοις ὦσι τόποις, οἱ δὲ μή, μάλιστα δ’ ὅταν οἱ μὲν ὦσιν ἀνατολικοί, οἱ δὲ δυτικοί. Καθόλου γὰρ τῶν ὑπὸ τὰς αὐγὰς ὄντων οὐδένα παραληπτέον οὔτε πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν οὔτε πρὸς βοήθειαν, πλὴν εἰ μὴ τῆς σελήνης ἀφέτιδος οὔσης αὐτὸς ὁ τοῦ ἡλίου τόπος ἀνέλῃ συντετραμμένος μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ συνόντος κακοποιοῦ, διὰ μηδενὸς δὲ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἀναλελυμένος.

     Ὁ μέντοι τῶν ἐτῶν ἀριθμός, ὃν ποιοῦσιν αἱ τῶν μεταξὺ διαστάσες ν′ μοῖραι τοῦ τε ἀφετικοῦ τόπου καὶ τοῦ ἀναιροῦντος, οὐδὲ ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ ὡς ἔτυχεν ὀφείλει λαμβάνεσθαι κατὰ τὰς τῶν πολλῶν παραδόσεις ἐκ τῶν ἀναφορικῶν πάντοτε χρόνων ἑκάστης μοίρας, εἰ μὴ μόνον, ὅταν ἤτοι αὐτὸς ὁ ἀνατολικὸς ὁρίζων τὴν ἄφεσιν ᾖ εἰληφὼς ἤ τις τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν ποιουμένων ἀνατολήν.

     Ἑνὸς γὰρ ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου τῷ φυσικῶς τοῦτο τὸ μέρος ἐπισκεπτομένῳ προκειμένου τοῦ σκοπεῖν, μετὰ πόσους ἰσημερινοὺς χρόνους ὁ τοῦ ἑπομένου σώματος ἢ σχήματος τόπος ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ προηγουμένου κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν γένεσιν παραγίνεται διὰ τὸ τοὺς ἰσημερινοὺς χρόνους ὁμαλῶς διέρχεσθαι καὶ τὸν ὁρίζοντα καὶ τὸν μεσημβρινόν, πρὸς οὓς ἀμφοτέρους αἱ τῶν τοπικῶν ἀποστάσεων ὁμοιότητες λαμβάνονται, καὶ ἰσχύειν δὲ ἕκαστον τῶν χρόνων ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα ἡλιακὸν εἰκότως, ὅταν μὲν ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀνατολικοῦ ὁρίζοντος ᾖ ὁ ἀφετικὸς καὶ προηγούμενος τόπος, τοὺς ἀναφορικοὺς χρόνους τῶν μέχρι τῆς ὑπαντήσεως μοιρῶν προσήκει λαμβάνειν· μετὰ τοσούτους γὰρ ἰσημερινοὺς χρόνους ὁ ἀναιρέτης ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ ἀφέτου τόπον τουτέστι ἐπὶ τὸν ἀνατολικὸν ὁρίζοντα παραγίνεται, ὅταν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ, τὰς ἐπ’ ὀρθῆς τῆς σφαίρας ἀναφοράς, ἐν ὅσαις ἕκαστον τμῆμα διέρχεται τὸν μεσημβρινόν, ὅταν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ δυτικοῦ ὁρίζοντος, ἐν ὅσαις ἑκάστη τῶν τῆς διαστάσεως μοιρῶν καταφέρεται, τουτέστιν ἐν ὅσαις αἱ διαμετροῦσαι ταύτας ἀναφέρονται.

     Τοῦ δὲ προηγουμένου τόπου μηκέτι ὄντος ἐν τοῖς τρισὶ τούτοις ὅροις ἀλλ’ ἐν ταῖς μεταξὺ διαστάσεσιν, οὐκέτι οἱ τῶν προκειμένων ἀναφορῶν ἢ καταφορῶν ἢ μεσουρανήσεων χρόνοι τοὺς ἑπομένους τόπους οἴσουσιν ἐπὶ τοὺς αὐτοὺς τοῖς προηγουμένοις ἀλλὰ διάφοροι. Ὅμοιος μὲν γὰρ καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς τόπος ἐστὶν ὁ τὴν ὁμοίαν καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ αὐτὰ μέρη θέσιν ἔχων ἅμα πρός τε τὸν ὁρίζοντα καὶ τὸν μεσημβρινόν· τοῦτο δὲ ἔγγιστα συμβέβηκε τοῖς ἐφ’ ἑνὸς κειμένοις ἡμικυκλίου τῶν γραφομένων διὰ τῶν τομῶν τοῦ τε μεσεμβρινοῦ καὶ τοῦ ὁρίζοντος, ὧν ἕκαστος κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν θέσιν τὴν ἴσην ἔγγιστα καιρικὴν ὥραν ποιεῖ. Ὥσπερ δ’ ἂν περιάγηται περὶ τὰς εἰρημένας τομάς, ἔρχεται μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν θέσιν καὶ τῷ ὁρίζοντι καὶ τῷ μεσημβρινῷ, τοὺς δὲ τῆς διελεύσεως τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ χρόνους ἀνίσους ἐφ’ ἑκατέρου ποιεῖ, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ κατὰ τὰς τῶν ἄλλων ἀποστάσεων θέσεις δι’ ἀνίσων ἐκείνοις χρόνων τὰς παρόδους ἀπεργάζεται.

     Μία δέ τις ἡμῖν ἔφοδος ἔστω τοιαύτη, δι’ ἧς, ἐάν τε ἀνατολικὴν ἐάν τε μεσημβρινὴν ἢ δυτικὴν ἐάν τε ἄλλην τινὰ ἔχῃ θέσιν ὁ προηγούμενος τόπος, τὸ ἀνάλογον τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν φερόντων χρόνων τὸν ἑπόμενον τόπον ληφθήσεται· προδιαλαβόντες γὰρ τήν τε μεσουρανοῦσαν τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ μοῖραν καὶ ἔτι τήν τε προηγουμένην καὶ τὴν ἐπερχομένην πρῶτον σκεψόμεθα τὴν τῆς προηγουμένης θέσιν, πόσας καιρικὰς ὥρας ἀπέχει τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ, ἀριθμήσαντες τὰς μεταξὺ αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς μεσουρανούσης οἰκείως ἤτοι ὑπὲρ γῆν ἢ ὑπὸ γῆν μοίρας ἐπ’ ὀρθῆς τῆς σφαίρας ἀναφορὰς καὶ μερίσαντες εἰς τὸ πλῆθος τῶν αὐτῆς τῆς προηγουμένης μοίρας ὡριαίων χρόνων, εἰ μὲν ὑπὲρ γῆν εἴη, τῶν ἡμερησίων, εἰ δὲ ὑπὸ γῆν, τῶν τῆς νυκτός, ἐπειδὴ τὰ τὰς αὐτὰς καιρικὰς ὥρας ἀπέχοντα τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ τμήματα τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ καθ’ ἑνὸς καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γίνεται τῶν προειρημένων ἡμικυκλίων, καὶ δεήσει λαβεῖν, μετὰ πόσους ἰσημερινοὺς χρόνους καὶ τὸ ἑπόμενον τμῆμα τὰς ἴσας καιρικὰς ὥρας ἀφέξει τοῦ αὐτοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ τῇ προηγουμένῃ, ταύτας δέ, ἃς εἰλήφαμεν, ἐπισκεψόμεθα, πόσους τε κατὰ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς θέσιν ἀπεῖχεν ἰσημερινοὺς χρόνους καὶ ἡ ἑπομένη μοῖρα τῆς κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ μεσουράνημα διὰ τῶν ἐπ’ ὀρθῆς πάλιν τῆς σφαίρας ἀναφορῶν, καὶ πόσους, ὅτε τὰς ἴσας καιρικὰς ὥρας ἐποίει τῇ προηγουμένῃ, πολυπλασιάσαντές τε καὶ ταύτας ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν τῆς ἑπομένης μοίρας ὡριαίων χρόνων, εἰ μὲν πρὸς τὸ ὑπὲρ γῆν εἴη μεσουράνημα πάλιν ἡ σύγκρισις, τῶν καιρικῶν ὡρῶν τὸ τῶν ἡμερησίων, εἰ δὲ πρὸς τὸ ὑπὸ γῆν, τὸ τῶν τῆς νυκτός, καὶ τοὺς γινομένους ἐκ τῆς ὑπεροχῆς ἀμφοτέρων τῶν διαστάσεων λαβόντες ἕξομεν τὸ τῶν ἐπιζητουμένων ἐτῶν πλῆθος.

     Ἵνα δὲ φανερώτερον γένηται τὸ λεγόμενον, ὑποκείσθω προηγούμενος μὲν τόπος ὁ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ Κριοῦ λόγου ἕνεκεν, ἑπόμενος δὲ ὁ τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν Διδύμων, κλίμα δέ, ὅπου ἡ μὲν μεγίστη ἡμέρα ὡρῶν ἐστι τεττάρων καὶ δέκα, τὸ δ’ ὡριαῖον μέγεθος τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν Διδύμων ἔγγιστα χρόνων ἰσημερινῶν ιζ′, καὶ ἀνατελλέτω πρῶτον ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ, ἵνα μεσουρανῇ ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Αἰγοκέρωτος, καὶ ἀπεχέτω τοῦ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουρανήματος ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Διδύμων χρόνους ἰσημερινοὺς ρμη′.

     Ἐπεὶ οὖν ἡ τοῦ Κριοῦ ἀρχὴ ἀπέχει τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ μεσουρανήματος καιρικὰς ὥρας ἕξ, ταύτας πολλαπλασιάσαντες ἐπὶ τοὺς ιζ′ χρόνους, οἵπερ ἦσαν τοῦ ὡριαίου μεγέθους τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν Διδύμων, ἐπειδήπερ πρὸς τὸ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουράνημά ἐστιν ἡ τῶν ρμη′ χρόνων ἀποχή, ἕξομεν καὶ ταύτης τῆς διαστάσεως χρόνους ρβ′· μετὰ τοὺς τῆς ὑπεροχῆς ἄρα χρόνους μς′ ὁ ἑπόμενος τόπος ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ προηγουμένου μεταβήσεται. Τοσοῦτοι δέ εἰσιν ἔγγιστα χρόνοι καὶ τῆς ἀναφορᾶς τοῦ τε Κριοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ταύρου, ἐπειδὴ ὁ ἀφετικὸς τόπος ὑπόκειται ὡροσκοπῶν.

     Μεσουρανείτω δὴ ὁμοίως ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ, ἵνα ἀπέχῃ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην θέσιν ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Διδύμων τοῦ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουρανήματος χρόνους ἰσημερινοὺς νη′. Ἐπειδὴ οὖν κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν θέσιν ὀφείλει μεσουρανεῖν ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Διδύμων, ἕξομεν τὴν τῶν διαστάσεων ὑπεροχὴν αὐτῶν τῶν νη′ χρόνων, ἐν ὅσοις πάλιν διὰ τὸ μεσουρανεῖν τὸν ἀφετικὸν τόπον διέρχεται τὸν μεσημβρινὸν ὅ τε Κριὸς καὶ ὁ Ταῦρος. Δυνέτω δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ, ἵνα μεσουρανῇ μὲν ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Καρκίνου, ἀπέχῃ δὲ τοῦ ὑπὲρ γὴν μεσουρανήματος ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Διδύμων εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα χρόνους ἰσημερινοὺς λβ′. Ἐπειδὴ οὖν πάλιν ἓξ ὥρας καιρικὰς ἀπέχει τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ πρὸς δυσμάς, ἐὰν ἑπτακαιδεκάκις ταύτας ποιήσωμεν, ἕξομεν ρβ′ χρόνους, οὓς ἀφέξει τοῦ μεσημβρινοῦ καὶ ἡ ἀρχὴ τῶν Διδύμων, ὅταν δύνῃ. Ἀπεῖχε δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην θέσιν ἐπὶ τὰ αὐτὰ χρόνους λβ′. Ἐν τοῖς τῆς ὑπεροχῆς ἄρα χρόνοις ο ἐπὶ τὸ δῦνον ἠνέχθη, ἐν οἷς καὶ καταφέρεται μὲν ὅ τε Κριὸς καὶ ὁ Ταῦρος, ἀναφέρεται δὲ τὰ διαμετροῦντα δωδεκατημόρια τό τε τῶν Χηλῶν καὶ τὸ τοῦ Σκορπίου.

     Ὑποκείσθω τοίνυν ἐπὶ μηδενὸς μὲν οὖσα τῶν κέντρων ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ, ἀπέχουσα δέ, λόγου ἕνεκεν εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα τῆς μεσημβρίας καιρικὰς ὥρας τρεῖς, ἵνα μεσουρανῇ μὲν ἡ τοῦ Ταύρου μοῖρα ὀκτωκαιδεκάτη, ἀπέχῃ δὲ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην θέσιν ἡ τῶν Διδύμων ἀρχὴ τοῦ ὑπὲρ γῆν μεσουρανήματος εἰς τὰ ἑπόμενα χρόνους ἰσημερινοὺς ιγ′· ἐὰν οὖν πάλιν τοὺς ιζ′ χρόνους ἐπὶ τὰς γ′ ὥρας πολλαπλασιάσωμεν, ἀφέξει μὲν καὶ κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν θέσιν ἡ τῶν Διδύμων ἀρχὴ τῆς μεσημβρίας εἰς τὰ προηγούμενα χρόνους να′, τοὺς δὲ πάντας ποιήσει χρόνους ξδ′. Ἐποίει δὲ διὰ τῆς αὐτῆς ἀγωγῆς, ὅτε μὲν ἀνέτελλεν ὁ ἀφετικὸς τόπος, χρόνους μι′, ὅτε δὲ ἐμεσουράνει, χρόνους νη′, ὅτε δὲ ἔδυνε, χρόνους ο′. Διήνεγκεν μὲν ἄρα καὶ ὁ κατὰ τὴν μεταξὺ θέσιν τῆς τε μεσουρανήσεως καὶ τῆς δύσεως τῶν χρόνων ἀριθμὸς ἑκάστου τῶν ἄλλων· γέγονε γὰρ χρόνων ξδ′· διήνεγκε δὲ κατὰ τὸ ἀνάλογον τῆς τῶν γ′ ὡρῶν ὑπεροχῆς, ἐπειδήπερ αὕτη ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων κατὰ τὰ κέντρα τεταρτημορίων ιβ′ χρόνων ἦν, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς τῶν τριῶν ὡρῶν ἀποστάσεως ἓξ χρόνων. Ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων ἡ αὐτὴ σχεδὸν ἀναλογία συντηρεῖται, δυνατὸν ἔσται κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἁπλούστερον τῇ μεθόδῳ χρῆσθαι.

     Πάλιν γὰρ ἀνατελλούσης μὲν τῆς προηγουμένης μοίρας ταῖς μέχρι τῆς ἑπομένης ἀναφοραῖς συγχρησόμεθα, μεσουρανούσης δὲ ταῖς ἐπ’ ὀρθῆς τῆς σφαίρας, δυνούσης δὲ ταῖς καταφοραῖς, ὅταν δὲ μεταξὺ τούτων ᾖ, ὡς λόγου ἕνεκεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκειμένης διαστάσεως τοῦ Κριοῦ, ληψόμεθα πρῶτον τοῦς ἐπιβάλλοντας χρόνους ἑκατέρῳ τῶν περιεχόντων κέντρων, εὑρήσομεν δέ, ἐπειδὴ μετὰ τὸ μεσουράνημα τὸ ὑπὲρ γῆν ὑπέκειτο ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ Κριοῦ μεταξὺ τοῦ μεσουρανοῦντος κέντρου καὶ τοῦ δύνοντος, τοὺς ἐπιβάλλοντας χρόνους μέχρι τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν Διδύμων, τῶν μὲν συμμεσουρανήσεων νη′, τῶν δὲ συγκαταδύσεων ο′.

     Ἔπειτα μαθόντες, ὡς πρόκειται, πόσας καιρικὰς ὥρας ἀπέχει τὸ προηγούμενον τμῆμα ὁποτέρου τῶν κέντρων, ὅσον ἂν ὦσι μέρος αὗται τῶν τοῦ τεταρτημορίου καιρικῶν ὡρῶν ἕξ, τοσοῦτον μέρος τῆς ἀμφοτέρων τῶν συναγωγῶν ὑπεροχῆς προσθήσομεν ἢ ἀφελοῦμεν τῶν συγκρινομένων κέντρων, οἷον ἐπεὶ τῶν προκειμένων ο′ καὶ νη′ ἡ ὑπεροχή ἐστι χρόνων ιβ′, ὑπέκειτο δὲ τὰς ἴσας καιρικὰς ὥρας τρεῖς ὁ προηγούμενος τόπος ἑκατέρου τῶν κέντρων ἀπέχων, αἵ εἰσι τῶν ἓξ ὡρῶν ἥμισυ μέρος, λαβόντες καὶ τῶν ιβ′ χρόνων τὸ ἥμισυ ἤτοι τοῖς νη′ προσθέντες ἢ τῶν ο′ ἀφελόντες εὑρήσομεν τὴν ἐπιβολὴν χρόνων ξδ′.

     Εἰ δέ γε δύο καιρικὰς ὥρας ἀπεῖχεν ὁποτέρου τῶν κέντρων, αἵ εἰσι τῶν ς′ ὡρῶν τὸ τρίτον μέρος, τὸ τρίτον πάλιν τῶν τῆς ὑπεροχῆς ιβ′ χρόνων, τουτέστι τοὺς δ′, εἰ μὲν ἡ τῶν δύο ὡρῶν ἀποχὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ μεσουρανήματος ὑπέκειτο, προσεθήκαμεν ἂν τοῖς νη′ χρόνοις, εἰ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ δύνοντος, ἀφείλομεν ἂν ἀπὸ τῶν ο′. Ὁ μὲν οὖν τρόπος τῆς τῶν χρονικῶν διαστάσεων ποσότητος οὕτως ἡμῖν κατὰ τὸ ἀκόλουθον ὀφείλει λαμβάνεσθαι.

     Διακρινοῦμεν δὲ λοιπὸν ἐφ’ ἑκάστης τῶν προειρημένων ὑπαντήσεων ἢ καὶ καταδύσεων κατὰ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀλιγοχρονιωτέρων τάξιν τάς τε ἀναιρετικὰς καὶ τὰς κλιμακτηρικὰς καὶ τὰς ἄλλως παροδικὰς διά τε τοῦ ἢ κεκακῶσθαι τῆν ὑπάντησιν ἢ βοηθεῖσθαι κατὰ τὸν προειρημένον ἡμῖν τρόπον καὶ διὰ τῶν καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν διασημαινομένων ἐκ τῆς ὑπαντήσεως χρονικῶν ἐπεμβάσεων· κεκακωμένων γὰρ ἅμα τῶν τόπων καὶ τῆς πρὸς τὴν ἐπέμβασιν τῶν ἐτῶν παρόδου τῶν ἀστέρων κακοποιούσης τοὺς κυριωτάτους τόπους ἄντικρυς θανάτους ὑπονοητέον, τοῦ δὲ ἑτέρου τούτων φιλανθρωποῦντος κλιμακτῆρας μεγάλους καὶ ἐπισφαλεῖς, ἀμφοτέρων δὲ νωθρίας μόνον ἢ βλάβας καὶ καθαιρέσεις παροδικὰς τῆς καὶ ἐν τούτοις ἰδιότητος λαμβανομένης ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ὑπαντητικῶν τόπων πρὸς τὰ τῆς γενέσεως πράγματα συνοικειώσεως.

     Οὐδὲν δὲ ἐνίοτε κωλύει, δισταζομένων τῶν τὴν ἀναιρετικὴν κυρίαν λαμβάνειν ὀφειλόντων τὰς καθ’ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ὑπαντήσεις ἐπιλογιζομένους ἤτοι ταῖς μάλιστα πρὸς τὰ ἐκβάντα ἤδη τῶν συμπτωμάτων συμφωνούσαις καὶ πρὸς τὰ μέλλοντα κατακολουθεῖν ἢ πρὸς ἁπάσας ὡς κατ’ ἰσότητα τῆς δυνάμεως ἰσχυούσας παρατηρητικῶς ἔχειν τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον αὐτῶν κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐπισκεπτομένους.

11. Of Length of Life

     The consideration of the length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth, for, as the ancient ⁵¹ says, it is ridiculous to attach particular predictions to one who, by the constitution of the years of his life, will never attain at all to the time of the predicted events. This doctrine is no simple matter, nor unrelated to others, but in complex fashion derived from the domination of the places of greatest authority.

     The method most pleasing to us and, besides, in harmony with nature is the following. For it depends entirely upon the determination of the prorogative ⁵² places and the stars that rule the prorogation, and upon the determination of the destructive ⁵³ places or stars ⁵⁴. Each of these is determined in the following fashion.

     In the first place we must consider those places prorogative in which by all means the planet must be that is to receive the lordship of the prorogation; namely, the twelfth part of the zodiac surrounding the horoscope, from 5° above the actual horizon up to the 25° that remains, which is rising in succession to the horizon; the part sextile dexter to these thirty degrees, called the House of the Good Daemon; the part in quartile, the mid-heaven; the part in trine, called the House of the God; and the part opposite, the Occident. Among these there are to be preferred, with reference to power of domination, first those ⁵⁵ which are in the mid­heaven, then those in the orient, then those in the sign succedent to the mid-heaven, then those in the occident ⁵⁶, then those in the sign rising before mid-heaven.

     For the whole region below the earth must, as is reasonable, be disregarded when a domination of such importance is concerned, except only those parts which in the ascendant sign itself are coming into the light. Of the part above the earth it is not fitting to consider either the sign that is disjunct from the ascendant ⁵⁷, nor that which rose before it, called the House of the Evil Daemon ⁵⁸, because it injures the emanation from the stars in it to the earth and is also declining, and the thick, misty exhalation from the moisture of the earth creates such a turbidity and, as it were, obscurity, that the stars do not appear in either their true colours or magnitudes.

     After this again we must take as prorogatives the four regions of greatest authority, still, moon, horoscope, the Lot of Fortune, and the rulers of these regions. Take as the Lot of Fortune ⁵⁹ always the amount of the number of degrees, both by night and by day, which is the distance from the sun to the moon, and which extends to an equal distance from the horoscope in the order of the following signs ⁶⁰, in order that, whatever relation and aspect the sun bears to the horoscope, the moon also may bear to the Lot of Fortune, and that it may be as it were a lunar horoscope ⁶¹.

     Of these ⁶², by day we must give first place to the sun, if it is in the prorogative places; if not, to the moon; and if the moon is not so placed, to the planet ⁶³ that has most relations of domination to the sun, to the preceding conjunction, and to the horoscope; that is, when, of the five methods of domination ⁶⁴ that exist, it has three to one, or even more; but if this cannot be, then finally we give preference to the horoscope. By night prefer the moon first, next the Sun, next the planets having the greater number of relations of domination to the moon, to the preceding full moon, and to the Lot of Fortune; otherwise, finally, if the preceding syzygy was a new moon, the horoscope, but if it was a full moon the Lot of Fortune ⁶⁵. But if both the luminaries or the ruler of the proper sect ⁶⁶ should be in the prorogative places, we must take the one of the luminaries that is in the place of greatest authority. And we should prefer the ruling planet to both of the luminaries only when it both occupies a position of greater authority and bears a relation of domination to both the sects.

     When the prorogator has been distinguished, we must still further adopt two methods of prorogation ⁶⁷. The one, that which follows the order of the following signs, must be used only in the case of what is called the projection of rays ⁶⁸, when the prorogator is in the orient, that is, between mid-heaven and the horoscope. We must use not only the method that follows the order of following signs, but also that which follows the order of leading signs, in the so–called horimaea, when the prorogator is in places that decline from mid-heaven ⁶⁹.

     This being the case, the destructive degrees in the prorogation that follows the order of leading signs are only the degree of the western horizon, because it causes the lord of life ⁷⁰ to vanish; and the degrees of the planets that thus approach or bear witness ⁷¹ merely take away and add years to the sum of those as far as the setting of the prorogator, and they do not destroy because they do not move toward the prorogative place, but it moves toward them ⁷². The beneficent stars add and the maleficent subtract. Mercury, again, is reckoned with the group to which he bears an aspect. The number of the addition or subtraction is calculated by means of the location in degrees in each case. For the entire number of years is the same as the number of hourly periods of each degree, hours of the day ⁷³ when it is day and hours of the night when it is night; this must be our reckoning when they are in the orient, and subtraction must be made in proportion to their departure therefrom, until at their setting it becomes zero.

     In the prorogation which follows the order of following signs, the places of the maleficent planets, Saturn and Mars, destroy, whether they are approaching bodily, or project their rays from any place whatever in quartile or in opposition, and sometimes too in sextile, upon the signs called “hearing” or “seeing” ⁷⁴ on grounds of equality of power; and the sign that is quartile to the prorogative sign in the order of following signs likewise destroys.

     And sometimes, also, among the signs that ascend slowly the sextile aspect destroys, when it is afflicted ⁷⁵, and again among the signs that ascend rapidly the trine. When the moon is the prorogator, the place of the sun also destroys. For in a prorogation of this kind the approaches of planets avail both to destroy and to preserve, since these are in the direction of the prorogative place ⁷⁶. However, it must not be thought that these places always inevitably destroy, but only when they are afflicted. For they are prevented both if they fall within the term ⁷⁷ of a beneficent planet and if one of the beneficent planets projects its ray from quartile, trine, or opposition either upon the destructive degree itself or upon the parts that follow it, in the case of Jupiter not more than 120, and in that of Venus not over 80; also if, when both the prorogator and the approaching planet are present bodily, the latitude of both is not the same ⁷⁸.

     Thus when there are two or more on each side, assisting and, vice versa, destroying, we must consider which of them prevails, both by the number of those that co-operate and by power; by number when one group is perceptibly more numerous than the other, and with regard to power when some of the assisting or of the destroying planets are in their own proper places, and some are not, and particularly when some are rising and others setting. For in general we must not admit any planet, either to destroy or to aid, that is under the rays of the sun, except that when the moon is prorogator the place of the sun itself is destructive, when it is changed about by the presence of a maleficent planet ⁷⁹ and is not released ⁸⁰ by any of the beneficent ones.

     However, the number of years, determined by the distances between the prorogative place and the destructive planet, ought not to be taken simply or offhand, in accordance with the usual traditions, from the times of ascension of each degree, except only when the eastern horizon itself is the prorogator, or some one of the planets that are rising in that region.

     For one method ⁸¹ alone ⁸¹ is available for him who is considering this subject in a natural manner –to calculate after how many equinoctial periods ⁸² the place of the following body or aspect comes to the place of the one preceding at the actual time of birth, because the equinoctial periods pass evenly ⁸³ through both the horizon and the mid-heaven, to both of which are referred the proportions of spatial distances, and, as is reasonable, each one of the periods has the value of one solar year ⁸⁴. Whenever the prorogative and preceding place is actually on the eastern horizon, we should take the times of ascension of the degrees up to the meetingplace; for after this number of equinoctial periode the destructive planet comes to the place of the prorogator, that is, to the eastern horizon. But when it ⁸⁵ is actually at the mid-heaven, we should take the ascensions on the right sphere in which the segment ⁸⁶ in each case passes mid-heaven; and when it is on the western horizon, the number in which each of the degrees of the interval descends, that is, the number in which those directly opposite them ascend.

     But if the precedent place is not on these three limits but in the intervals between them, in that case the times of the aforesaid ascensions, descensions, or culminations will not carry the following places to the places of the preceding, but the periods will be different. For a place is similar and the same if it has the same position ⁸⁷ in the same direction with reference both to the horizon and to the meridian. This is most nearly true of those which lie upon one of those semicircles ⁸⁸ which are described through the sections of the meridian and the horizon, each of which at the same position makes nearly the same temporal hour. Even as, if the revolution is upon the aforesaid arcs, it reaches the same position with reference to both the meridian and horizon, but makes the periods of the passage of the zodiac unequal with respect to either, in the same way also at the positions of the other distances it makes their passages in times unequal to the former ⁸⁹.

     We shall therefore adopt one method only, as follows, whereby, whether the preceding place occupies the orient, the mid-heaven, the occident, or any other position, the proportionate number of equinoctial times that bring the following place to it will be apprehended. For after we have first determined the culminating degree of the zodiac and furthermore the degree of the precedent and that of the subsequent, in the first place we shall investigate the position of the precedent, how many ordinary hours it is removed from the meridian, counting the ascensions that properly intervene up to the very degree of mid-heaven, whether over or under the earth, on the right sphere, and dividing them by the amount of the horary periods ⁹⁰ of the precedent degree ⁹⁰, diurnal if it is above the earth and nocturnal if it is below.

     But since the sections of the zodiac which are an equal number of ordinary hours removed from the meridian lie upon one and the same of the aforesaid semicircles, it will also be necessary to find after how many equinoctial periods the subsequent section will be removed from the same meridian by the same number of ordinary hours as the precedent ⁹¹. When we have determined these, we shall inquire how many equinoctial hours at its original position the degree of the subsequent was removed from the degree at mid-heaven, again by means of ascensions in the right sphere, and how many when it made the same number of ordinary hours as the precedent, multiplying these into the number of the horary periods ⁹² of the degree of the subsequent; if again the comparison of the ordinary hours relates to the mid-heaven above the earth, multiplying into the number of diurnal hours, but if it relates to that below the earth, the number of nocturnal hours. And taking the results from the difference of the two distances, we shall have the number of years for which the inquiry was made.

     To make this clearer, suppose that the precedent place is the beginning of Aries, for example, and the subsequent the beginning of Gemini, and the latitude that where the longest day is fourteen hours long ⁹³, and the horary magnitude of the beginning of Gemini is approximately 17 equinoctial times ⁹⁴. Assume first that the beginning of Aries is rising, so that the beginning of Capricorn is at mid-heaven, and let the beginning of Gemini be removed from the mid-heaven above the earth 148 equinoctial times ⁹⁵. Now since the beginning of Aries is six ordinary hours ⁹⁶ removed from the diurnal mid-heaven, multiplying these into the 17 equinoctial times, which are the times of the horary magnitude of the beginning of Gemini, since the distance of 148 times relates to the mid-heaven above the earth, we shall have for this interval also 102 times. Hence, after 46 times, which is the difference, the subsequent place will pass to the position of the precedent. These are very nearly the equinoctial times of the ascension of Aries and Taurus, since it is assumed that the prorogative sign is the horoscope.

     Similarly, let the beginning of Aries be at mid­heaven, so that at its original position the beginning of Gemini may be 58 equinoctial times ⁹⁷ removed from the mid-heaven above the earth. Therefore, since at its second position the beginning of Gemini should be at mid-heaven, we shall have for the difference of the distances precisely this amount of 58 times, in which again, because the prorogative sign is at mid-heaven, Aries and Taurus ⁹⁸ page through the meridian. In the same way let the beginning of Aries be setting, so that the beginning of Cancer may be at mid-heaven and the beginning of Gemini may be removed from the mid-heaven above the earth in the direction of the leading signs ⁹⁹ by 32 equinoctial periode. Since; then, again the beginning of Aries is six ordinary hours removed from the meridian in the direction of the occident, if we multiply this by 17 we shall have 102 times, which will be the distance of the beginning of Gemini from the meridian when it sets. At its first position also it was distant from the same point 32 times; hence it moved to the occident in the 70 times of the difference, in which period also Aries and Taurus descend and the opposite signs Libra and Scorpio ascend ¹⁰⁰.

     Now let it be assumed that the beginning of Aries is not on any of the angles, but removed, for example, three ordinary hours from the meridian in the direction of the leading signs, so that the 18th degree of Taurus is at mid-heaven, and in its first position the beginning of Gemini is 13 equinoctial times removed from the mid-heaven above the earth in the order of the following signs ¹⁰¹. If, then, again we multiply 17 equinoetial times into the three hours, the beginning of Gemini will at its second position be distant from mid-heaven in the direction of the leading signs 51 equinoctial times, and it will make in all 64 times ¹⁰². But it made 46 times by the same procedure when the prorogative place was rising, 58 when it was in mid-heaven, and 70 when it was setting. Hence the number of equinoctial times at the position between mid-heaven and the occident differs from each of the others. For it is 64, and the difference is proportional to the excess of three hours ¹⁰³, since this was 12 equinoctial times in the case of the other quadrants at the centres, but 6 equinoetial times in the case of the distance of three hours. And inasmuch as in all cases approximately the same proportin is observed, it will be possible to use the method in this simpler way.

     For again, when the precedent degree is at rising, we shall employ the ascensions up to the subsequent; if it is at mid-heaven, the degrees on the right sphere; and if it is setting, the descensions. But when it is between these points, for example, at the aforesaid interval from Aries, we shall take first the equinoctial times corresponding to each of the surrounding angles, and we shall find, since the beginning of Aries was assumed to be beyond the mid-heaven above the earth, between mid-heaven and the occident, that the corresponding equinoctial times up to the first of Gemini from mid-heaven are 58 and from the occident 70.

     Next let us ascertain, as was set forth above ¹⁰⁴, how many ordinary hours the precedent section is removed from either of the angles, and whatever fraction they may be of the six ordinary hours of the quadrant, that fraction of the difference between both sums we shall add to or subtract from the angle with which comparison is made. For example, since the difference between the above mentioned 70 and 58 is 12 times, and it was assumed that the precedent place was removed by an equal number of ordinary hours, three, from each of the angles, which are one half of the six hours, then taking also one-half of the 12 equinoctial times and either adding them to the 58 or subtracting them from the 70, we shall find the result to be 64 times.

     But if it was removed two ordinary hours from either one of the angles, which are one-third of the six hours, again we shall take one-third of the 12 times of the excess, that is, 4, and if the removal by two hours had been assumed to be from the mid-heaven, we would have added them to the 58 times, but if it was measured from the occident we would have subtracted them from 70. The method of ascertaining the amount of the temporal intervals ought in this way consistently to be followed.

     For the rest, we shall determine in each of the aforesaid cases of approach or setting ¹⁰⁵, in the order of those that ascend more rapidly, those which are destructive, climacteric, or otherwise transitional ¹⁰⁶, according as the meeting is afflicted or assisted in the way we have already explained ¹⁰⁷, and by means of the particular significance of the predictions made from the temporal ingresses of the meeting ¹⁰⁸. For when at the same time the places are afflicted and the transit of the stars relative to the ingress of the years of life afflicts the governing places, we must understand that death is definitely signified; if one of them is benignant, great and dangerous crises; if both are benignant, only sluggishness, injuries, or transitory disasters. In these matters the special quality is ascertained from the familiarity of the occurrent places with the circumstances of the nativity.

     Sometimes, when it is doubtful which ought to take over the destroying power, there is nothing to prevent our calculating the occourses of each and then either following, in predicting the future, the occourses which most agree with past events, or observing them all, as having equal power, determining as before the question of their degree.

12. Περὶ μορφῆς καὶ κράσεως σωματικῆς

     Ἐφωδευμένης δὲ καὶ τῆς τοῦ περὶ χρόνων ζωῆς λόγου πραγματείας λέγομεν ἀρχὴν τῶν κατὰ μέρος, λαβόντες κατὰ τὴν οἰκείαν τάξιν περί τε τῆς μορφῆς καὶ τῆς σωματικῆς διατυπώσεως, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τὰ τοῦ σώματος τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς προτυποῦται κατὰ φύσιν, τοῦ μὲν σώματος διὰ τὸ ὑλικώτερον συγγεννωμένας ἔχοντος σχεδὸν τὰς τῶν ἰδιοσυγκρασιῶν φαντασίας, τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ κατὰ μικρὸν τὰς ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης αἰτίας ἐπιτηδειότητας ἀναδεικνυούσης, τῶν δ’ ἐκτὸς ἔτι μᾶλλον ὕστερον κατὰ τὸν ἐφεξῆς χρόνον ἐπισυμπιπτόντων.

     Παρατηρητέον οὖν καθόλου μὲν τὸν ἀνατολικὸν ὁρίζοντα καὶ τοὺς ἐπόντας ἢ τοὺς τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν αὐτοῦ λαμβάνοντας τῶν πλανωμένων, καθ’ ὃν εἰρήκαμεν τρόπον, ἐπὶ μέρους δὲ καὶ τὴν σελήνην ὡσαύτως· διὰ γὰρ τῆς τῶν τόπων τούτων ἀμφοτέρων καὶ τῆς τῶν οἰκοδεσποτησάντων διαμορφωτικῆς φύσεως καὶ τῆς καθ’ ἑκάτερον εἶδος συγκράσεως καὶ ἔτι τῆς τῶν συνανατελλόντων αὐτοῖς ἀπλανῶν ἀστέρων σχηματογραφίας τὰ περὶ τὰς διατυπώσεις τῶν σωμάτων θεωρεῖται, πρωτευόντων μὲν τῇ δυνάμει τῶν τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν ἐχόντων ἀστέρων, ἐπισυνεργούσης δὲ καὶ τῆς τῶν τόπων αὐτῶν ἰδιοτροπίας. Τὸ μέντοι καθ’ ἕκαστον καὶ ὡς ἄν τις ἁπλῶς οὕτως ἀποδοίη, τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον.

     Πρῶτον γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀστέρων ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου ἀνατολικὸς ὢν τῇ μὲν μορφῇ μελιχρόας ποιεῖ καὶ εὐεκτικοὺς καὶ μελανότριχας καὶ οὐλοκεφάλους καὶ δασυστέρνους καὶ μεσοφθάλμους καὶ συμμέτρους τοῖς μεγέθεσι, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ μᾶλλον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ καὶ ψυχρῷ, δυτικὸς δὲ ὑπάρχων τῇ μὲν μορφῇ μέλανας καὶ σπινώδεις καὶ μικροὺς καὶ ἁπλότριχας καὶ ὑποψίλους καὶ ὑπορρύθμους καὶ μελανοφθάλμους, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ μᾶλλον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ καὶ ψυχρῷ.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς οἰκοδεσποτήσας τοὺς προκειμένους τόπους ἀνατολικὸς τῇ μὲν μορφῇ ποιεῖ λευκοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ εὔχρουν καὶ μεσότριχας καὶ μεγαλοφθάλμους καὶ εὐμεγέθεις καὶ ἀξιωματικούς, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ θερμῷ καὶ ὑγρῷ, δυτικὸς δὲ ὑπάρχων τῇ μὲν χρόᾳ λευκοὺς μέν, οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ εὔχρουν δὲ ὁμοίως, τετανότριχάς τε καὶ ἀναφαλαντιαίους καὶ μεσοφαλάκρους καὶ μετρίους τοῖς μεγέθεσι, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως ὁμοίως ἀνατολικὸς τῇ μὲν μορφῇ ποιεῖ λευκερύθρους καὶ εὐμεγέθεις καὶ εὐέκτας καὶ γλαυκοφθάλμους καὶ δασεῖς καὶ μεσότριχας, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ θερμῷ καὶ ξηρῷ, δυτικὸς δὲ ὑπάρχων τῇ μὲν μορφῇ ἐρυθροὺς ἁπλῶς καὶ μετρίους τοῖς μεγέθεσι καὶ μικροφθάλμους καὶ ὑποψίλους καὶ ξανθτριχας καὶ τετανούς, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ.

     Ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης τὰ παραπλήσια ποιεῖ τῷ τοῦ Διός, ἐπὶ μέντοι τὸ εὐμορφώτερον καὶ ἐπιχαριτώτερον καὶ γυναικοπρεπωδέστερον καὶ θηλυμορφώτερον καὶ εὐχυμότερον καὶ τρυφερώτερον, ἰδίως δὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ποιεῖ μετὰ τοῦ εὐπρεποῦς ὑποχαροπούς.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀνατολικὸς τῇ μὲν μορφῇ ποιεῖ μελίχροας καὶ συμμέτρους τοῖς μεγέθεσι καὶ εὐρύθμους καὶ μικροφθάλμους καὶ μεσότριχας, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ θερμῷ, δυτικὸς δὲ ὑπάρχων τῇ μὲν μορφῇ λευκοὺς μέν, οὐκ ἐπὶ τὸ εὔχρουν δὲ ὁμοίως, τετανότριψας, μελαγχλώρους καὶ σπινοὺς καὶ ἰσχνοὺς καὶ λοξοφθάλμους τε καὶ αἰγόπους καὶ ὑπερύθρους, τῇ δὲ κράσει τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ.

     Συνεργοῦσι δὲ ἑκάστῳ τούτων συσχηματισθέντες ὁ μὲν ἥλιος ἐπὶ τὸ μεγαλοπρεπέστερον καὶ εὐεκτικώτερον, ἡ δὲ σελήνη, καὶ μάλισθ’, ὅταν τὴν ἀπόρροιαν αὐτῆς ἐπέχωσι, καθόλου μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ συμμετρώτερον καὶ ἰσχνώτερον καὶ τῇ κράσει ὑγρότερον, κατὰ μέρος δὲ ἀναλόγως τῇ τῶν φωτισμῶν ἰδιότητι κατὰ τὴν ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς συντάξεως ἐκτεθειμένην κρᾶσιν. Πάλιν δὲ καθόλου ἑῷοι μὲν ὄντες καὶ φάσεις ποιησάμενοι μεγαλοποιοῦσι τὰ σώματα, στηρίζοντες δὲ τὸ πρῶτον ἰσχυρὰ καὶ εὔτονα, προηγούμενοι δὲ ἀσύμμετρα, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον στηρίζοντες ἀσθενέστερα, δύνοντος δὲ ἄδοξα μὲν παντελῶς, οἰστικὰ δὲ κακουχιῶν καὶ συνοχῶν.

     Καὶ τῶν τόπων δὲ αὐτῶν πρὸς τοὺς σχηματισμοὺς μάλιστα τῶν διατυπώσεων καὶ τὰς κράσεις, ὡς ἔφαμεν, συνεργούντων καθόλου πάλιν τὸ μὲν ἀπὸ ἐαρινῆς ἰσημερίας ἐπὶ θερινὴν τροπὴν τεταρτημόριον ποιεῖ εὔχροας, εὐμεγέθεις, εὐέκτας, εὐοφθάλμους, τὸ δὲ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ καὶ θερμῷ, τὸ δ’ ἀπὸ τῆς θερινῆς τροπῆς μέχρι μετοπωρινῆς ἰσημερίας μεσόχροας, συμμέτρους τοῖς μεγέθεσιν, εὐέκτας, μεγαλοφθάλμους, δασεῖς, οὐλότριχας, τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ θερμῷ καὶ ξηρῷ, τὸ δ’ ἀπὸ τῆς μετοπωρινῆς ἰσημερίας μέχρι τῆς χειμερινῆς τροπῆς μελίχροας, ἰσχνούς, σπινώδεις, παθήνους, μεσότριχας, εὐοφθάλμους, τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ καὶ ψυχρῷ, τὸ δ’ ἀπὸ τῆς χειμερινῆς τροπῆς ἕως ἐαρινῆς ἰσημερίας μελανόθροας, συμμέτρους τοῖς μεγέθεσι, τετανότριχας, ὑποψίλους, ὑπορρύθμους, τὸ πλεῖον ἔχοντας ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ καὶ ψυχρῷ.

     Κατὰ μέρος δὲ τὰ μὲν ἀνθρωποειδῆ τῶν ζῳδίων τῶν τε ἐν τῷ ζῳδιακῷ καὶ τῶν ἐκτὸς εὔρυθμα καὶ σύμμετρα τοῖς σχήμασι τὰ σώματα κατασκευάζει, τὰ δὲ ἑτερόμορφα μετασχηματίζει πρὸς τὸ τῆς ἰδίας μορφώσεως οἰκεῖον τὰς τοῦ σώματος συμμετρίας καὶ κατά τινα λόγον ἀφομοιοῖ τὰ οἰκεῖα μέρη τοῖς ἑαυτῶν ἤτοι ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον καὶ ἔλαττον ἢ ἐπὶ τὸ ἰσχυρότερον καὶ ἀσθενέστερον ἢ ἐπὶ τὸ εὐρυθμότερον καὶ ἀρρυθμότερον, ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον μέν, ὡς λόγου ἕνεκεν ὁ Λέων καὶ ἡ Παρθένος καὶ ὁ Τοξότης, ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλαττον δὲ ὡς οἱ Ἰχθύες καὶ ὁ Καρκίνος καὶ ὁ Αἰγόκερως, καὶ πάλιν ὡς τοῦ Κριοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ταύρου καὶ τοῦ Λέοντος τὰ μὲν ἄνω καὶ ἐμπρόσθια ἐπὶ τὸ εὐεκτικώτερον, τὰ δὲ κάτω καὶ ὀπίσθια ἐπὶ τὸ ἀσθενέστερον, τὸ δὲ ἐναντίον ὡς τοῦ Τοξότου καὶ τοῦ Σκορπίου καὶ τῶν Διδύμων τὰ μὲν ἐμπρόσθια ἐπὶ τὸ ἰσχνότερον, τὰ δὲ ὀπίσθια ἐπὶ τὸ εὐεκτικώτερον, ὁμοίως δὲ ὡς ἡ μὲν Παρθένος καὶ αἱ Χῆλαι καὶ ὁ Τοξότης ἐπὶ τὸ σύμμετρον καὶ εὔρυθμον, ὁ δὲ Σκορπίος καὶ οἱ Ἰχθύες καὶ ὁ Ταῦρος ἐπὶ τὸ ἄρρυθμον καὶ ἀσύμμετρον καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὁμοίως, ἅπερ ἅπαντα συνεφορῶντας καὶ συνεπικίρναντας προσήκει τὴν ἐκ τῆς κράσεως συναγομένην ἰδιοτροπίαν περί τε τὰς μορφώσεις καὶ τὰς κράσεις τὼν σωμάτων καταστοχάζεσθαι.

12. Of Bodily Form and Temperament

     Now that the procedure in the matter of the length of life has been explained, we Break about the form and character of the body, beginning the detailed discussion in the proper order, inasmuch as naturally, too, the bodily parts are formed prior to the soul; for the body, because it is more material, carries almost from birth the outward appearances of its idiosyncrasies, while the soul shows forth the characters conferred upon it by the first cause only afterwards and little by little, and external accidental qualities come about still later in time.

     We must, then, in general observe the eastern horizon and the planets that are upon it or assume its rulership in the way already explained ¹⁰⁹; and in particular also the moon as well; for it is through the formative power of these two places ¹¹⁰ and of their rulers and through the mixture of the two kinds ¹¹¹, and furthermore through the forms of the fixed stars that are rising at the same time, that the conformation of the body is ascertained; the ruling planets have most power in this matter and the special characters of their places aid them.

     The detailed account, then, as one might report it in simple terms, is this: First, among the planets, Saturn, if he is in the orient, makes his subjects in appearance dark-skinned, robust, black-haired, curly-haired, hairy-chested, with eyes of moderate size, of middling stature, and in temperament having an excess of the moist and cold. If Saturn is setting, in appearance he makes them dark, slender, small, straight-haired, with little hair on the body, rather graceful, and black-eyed; in temperament, sharing most in the cold and dry.

     Jupiter, as the ruler of the aforesaid regions, when he is rising, makes his subjects in appearance light of skin, but in such a way as to have a good colour, with moderately curling hair and large eyes, tall, and commanding respect; in temperament they exceed in the hot and the moist. When Jupiter is setting, he makes his subjects light, to be sure, but not as befare, in such a way as to give them a good colour, and with lank hair or even bald in front and on the crown, and of average stature; in temperament they have an excess of the moist.

     Similarly, Mars, when rising, makes his subjects in appearance red and white of complexion, tall and robust, gray-eyed, with thick hair, somewhat curly, and in temperament showing an excess of the warm and dry. When he is setting, he makes them in appearance simply ruddy, of middle height, with small eyes, not much hair on the body, and straight yellow hair; their temperament exceeds in the dry.

     Venus has effects similar to Jupiter’s, but is apt to make her subjects more shapely, graceful, womanish, effeminate in figure, plump, and luxurious. On her own proper account she makes the eyes bright as well as beautiful.

     Mercury, in the orient, makes his subjects in appearance sallow, of moderate height, graceful, with small eyes and moderately curling hair; in temperament, showing an excess of the warm. In the occident he makes them, in appearance, of light but not of good colouring, with straight hair and olive complexion, lean and spare, with glancing, brilliant eyes ¹¹², and somewhat ruddy; in temperament they exceed in the dry.

     The luminaries assist each of these when they bear an aspect to them, the sun tending to a more impressive and robust effect, and the moon, especially when she is separating ¹¹³ from the planets, in general tending toward better proportion and greater slenderness, and toward a more moist temperament; but in particular cases her effect is proportioned to the special quality of her illumination, in accordance with the system of internixture explained in the beginning of the treatise ¹¹⁴. Again, generally, when the planets are morning stars and make an appearance ¹¹⁵, they make the body large; at their first station, powerful and muscular; when they are moving forward ¹¹⁶, not well-proportioned; at their second station, rather weak; and at setting, entirely without repute but able to bear hardship and oppression.

     Likewise their places, as we have said ¹¹⁷, take an important part in the formation of the bodily characters and temperaments. In general terms, once more, the quadrant from the spring equinox to the summer solstice makes the subjects well-favoured in complexion, stature, robustness, and eyes, and exceeding in the moist and warm. The quadrant from the summer solstice to the autumn equinox produces individuals with moderately good complexion and moderate height, robust, with large eyes and thick and curly hair, exceeding in the warm and dry. The quadrant from the autumn equinox to the winter solstice makes them sallow, spare, slender, sickly, with moderately curling hair and good eyes, exceeding in the dry and cold. The quadrant from the winter solstice to the spring equinox produces individuals of dark complexion, moderate height, straight hair, with little hair on their bodies, somewhat graceful, and exceeding in the cold and moist.

     In particular, the constellations both within and outside of the zodiac which are of human shape produce bodies which are harmonious of movement and well-proportioned; those however which are of other than human shape modify the bodily proportions to correspond to their own peculiarities, and after a fashion make the corresponding parts like their own, larger and smaller, or stronger and weaker, or more and less graceful. For example, Leo, Virgo, and Sagittarius make them larger; others, as Pisces, Cancer, and Capricorn, smaller. And again, as in the case of Aries, Taurus, and Leo, the upper and fore parts make them more robust and the lower and hind parts weaker. Conversely the fore parts of Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Gemini cause slenderness and the hind parts robustness. Similarly too Virgo, Libra, and Sagittarius tend to make them well-proportioned and graceful, while Scorpio, Pisces, and Taurus bring about awkwardness and disproportion. So it is with the rest, and it is fitting that we should observe and combine all these things and make a conjecture as to the character which results from the mixture, with regard both to the form and to the temperament of the body.

13. Περὶ σινῶν καὶ παθῶν σωματικῶν

     Ἑπομένου δὲ τούτοις τοῦ περὶ τὰ σωματικὰ σίνη τε καὶ πάθη λόγου συνάψομεν αὐτοῖς κατὰ τὸ ἑξῆς τὴν κατὰ τοῦτο τὸ εἶδος συνισταμένην ἐπίσκεψιν ἔχουσαν οὕτως· καὶ ἐνταῦθα γὰρ πρὸς μὲν τὴν καθόλου διάληψιν ἀποβλέπειν δεῖ πρὸς τὰ τοῦ ὁρίζοντος δύο κέντρα, τουτέστι τό τε ἀνατέλλον καὶ τὸ δύνον, μάλιστα δὲ πρός τε τὸ δύνον αὐτὸ καὶ πρὸς τὸ προδύνον, ὅ ἐστιν ἀσύνδετον τῷ ἀνατολικῷ κέντρῳ, καὶ παρατηρεῖν τοὺς κακωτικοὺς τῶν ἀστέρων, πῶς ἐσχηματισμένοι πρὸς αὐτὰ τυγχάνουσιν· ἐὰν γὰρ πρὸς τὰς ἐπαναφερομένας μοίρας τῶν εἰρημένων τόπων ὦσιν ἑστῶτες ἤτοι σωματικῶς ἢ τετραγωνικῶς ἢ καὶ κατὰ διάμετρον ἤτοι ὁπότερος αὐτῶν ἢ καὶ ἀμφότεροι, σίνη καὶ πάθη σωματικὰ περὶ τοὺς γεννωμένους ἕξειν ὑπονοητέον, μάλιστα δ’ ἂν καὶ τῶν φώτων ἤτοι τὸ ἕτερον ἢ ἀμφότερα κεκεντρωμένα, καθ’ ὃν εἰρήκαμεν τρόπον, τυγχάνῃ ἢ ἅμα ἢ κατὰ διάμετρον.

     Τότε γὰρ οὐ μόνον, ἐὰν ἐπαναφέρηταί τις τῶν κακοποιῶν, ἀλλὰ κἂν προαναφέρηται τῶν φώτων αὐτὸς κεκεντρωμένος, ἱκανός ἐστι διαθεῖναί τι τῶν ἐκκειμένων, ὁποῖον ἂν οἵ τε τοῦ ὁρίζοντος τόποι καὶ οἱ τῶν ζῳδίων ὑποφαίνωσι σίνος ἢ πάθος καὶ αἱ τῶν ἀστέρων φύσεις τῶν τε κακούντων καὶ τῶν κακουμένων καὶ ἔτι τῶν συσχηματιζομένων αὐτοῖς. Τά τε γὰρ μέρη τῶν ζῳδίων ἑκάστου τὰ περιέχοντα τὸ ἀδικούμενον μέρος τοῦ ὁρίζοντος δηλώσει τὸ μέρος τοῦ σώματος, περὶ ὃ ἔσται τὸ αἴτιον, καὶ πότερον σίνος ἢ πάθος ἢ καὶ ἀμφότερα τὸ δηλούμενον μέρος ἐπιδείξασθαι δύναται, αἵ τε τῶν ἀστέρων φύσεις τὰ εἴδη καὶ τὰς αἰτίας τῶν συμπτωμάτων ποιοῦσιν, ἐπειδὴ τῶν κυριωτάτων τοῦ ἀνθρώπου μερῶν ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου κύριός ἐστιν ἀκοῶν τε δεξιῶν καὶ σπληνὸς καὶ κύστεως καὶ φλέγματος καὶ ὀστέων, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς ἁφῆς τε καὶ πνεύμονος καὶ ἀρτηριῶν καὶ σπέρματος, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως ἀκοῶν εὐωνύμων καὶ νεφρῶν καὶ φλεβῶν καὶ μορίων, ὁ δὲ ἥλιος ὁράσεως καὶ ἐγκεφάλου καὶ καρδίας καὶ νεύρων καὶ τῶν δεξιῶν πάντων, ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ὀσφρήσεώς τε καὶ ἥπατος καὶ σαρκῶν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ λόγου καὶ διανοίας καὶ γλώσσης καὶ χολῆς καὶ ἕδρας, ἡ δὲ σελήνη γεύσεώς τε καὶ καταπόσεως καὶ στομάχου καὶ κοιλίας καὶ μήτρας καὶ τῶν εὐωνύμων πάντων.

     Ἔστι δὲ τῶν καθόλου καὶ τὰ σίνη μὲν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ συμπίπτειν ἀνατολικῶν ὄντων τῶν τὸ αἴτιον ποιούντων κακοποιῶν, πάθη δὲ τοὐναντίον δυτικῶν αὐτῶν ὑπαρχόντων, ἐπειδήπερ καὶ διώρισται τούτων ἑκάτερον τῷ τὸ μὲν σίνος ἅπαξ διατιθέναι καὶ μὴ διατείνουσαν ἔχειν τὴν ἀλγηδόνα, τὸ δὲ πάθος ἤτοι συνεχῶς ἢ ἐπιληπτικῶς τοῖς πάσχουσιν ἐπισκήπτειν.

     Πρὸς δὲ τὴν κατὰ μέρος ἐπιβολὴν ἤδη τινὰ παρατηρήσεως ἔτυχεν ἐξαιρέτου σινωτικά τε καὶ παθητικὰ σχήματα διὰ τῶν ὡς ἐπίπαν κατὰ τὰς ὁμοιοσχήμονας θέσεις παρακολουθούντων συμπτωμάτων· πηρώσεις γὰρ ὄψεως ἀποτελοῦνται κατὰ μὲν τὸν ἕτερον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, ὅταν τε ἡ σελήνη καθ’ αὑτὴν ἐπὶ τῶν προειρημένων οὖσα κέντρων ἢ συνοδεύουσα ἢ πανσεληνιάζουσα τύχῃ, καὶ ὅταν ἐφ’ ἑκατέρου μὲν τῶν πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον σχήματος λόγον ἐχόντων, συνάπτῃ δέ τινι τῶν νεφελοειδῶν ἐν τῷ ζῳδιακῷ συστροφῶν, ὡς τῷ νεφελίῳ τοῦ Καρκίνου καὶ τῇ πλειάδι τοῦ Ταύρου καὶ τῇ ἀκίδι τοῦ Τοξότου καὶ τῷ κέντρῳ τοῦ Σκορπίου καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὸν πλόκαμον μέρεσι τοῦ Λέοντος ἢ τῇ κάλπιδι τοῦ Ὑδροχόου, καὶ ὅταν ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως ἢ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Κρόνου ἐπικέντρῳ οὔσῃ αὐτῇ καὶ ἀποκρουστικῇ ἀνατολικοὶ αὐτοὶ ὄντες ἐπιφέρωνται ἢ πάλιν τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπικέντρου ὄντος προαναφέρωνται.

     Ἐὰν δὲ ἀμφοτέροις ἅμα τοῖς φωσὶν ἤτοι κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ζῴδιον ἢ καὶ κατὰ διάμετρον, ὡς εἴπομεν, συσχηματισθῶσιν, ἑῷοι μὲν τῷ ἡλίῳ ὄντες, τῇ δὲ σελήνῃ ἑσπέριοι, περὶ ἀμφοτέρους τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τὸ αἴτιον ποιήσουσιν· ὁ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Ἄρεως ἀπὸ πληγῆς ἢ κρούσματος ἢ σιδήρου ἢ κατακαύματος ποιεῖ τὰς πηρώσεις, μετὰ δὲ Ἑρμοῦ συσχηματισθεὶς ἐν παλαίστραις ἢ γυμνασίοις ἢ κακούργων ἐφόδοις, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου δι’ ὑποχύσεων ἢ ψύξεων ἢ ἀπογλαυκώσεων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων.

     Πάλιν ἐπὰν ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἐπί τινος ᾖ τῶν προειρημένων κέντρων, μάλιστα δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ δύνοντος τῷ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου συνὼν ἢ συσχηματιζόμενος ἢ ἐνηλλαχὼς τοὺς τόπους, ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως καθυπερτερούμενος ἢ διαμετρούμενος, οἱ μὲν ἄνδρες ἄγονοι γίνονται, αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες ἐκτρωσμοῖς ἢ ὠμοτοκίαις ἢ καὶ ἐμβρυοτομίαις περικυλίονται, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν Καρκίνῳ καὶ Παρθένῳ καὶ Αἰγοκέρωτι, κἂν ἡ σελήνη ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς τῷ τοῦ Ἄρεως συνάπτῃ. Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ τῷ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ συσχηματισθῇ σὺν τῷ τοῦ Κρόνου, τοῦ τοῦ Ἄρεως πάλιν καθυπερτεροῦντος ἢ διαμετροῦντος, εὐνοῦχοι ἢ ἑρμαφρόδιτοι ἢ ἄτρωγλοι καὶ ἄτρητοι γίγνονται.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐπὰν καὶ ὁ ἥλιος συσχηματισθῇ τῶν μὲν φώτων καὶ τοῦ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἠρρενωμένων, ἀποκρουστικῆς δὲ τῆς σελήνης οὔσης καὶ τῶν κακοποιῶν ταῖς ἐπαναφερομέναις μοίραις ἐπαναφερομένων, οἱ μὲν ἄνδρες ἀπόκοποι ἢ τὰ μόρια σεσινωμένοι γίνονται καὶ μάλιστα ἐν Κριῷ καὶ Λέοντι καὶ Σκορπίῳ καὶ Αἰγοκέρωτι καὶ Ὑδροχόῳ, αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες ἄτοκοι καὶ στεῖραι.

     Ἐνίοτε δὲ οὐδὲ ἀσινεῖς ταῖς ὄψεσιν οἱ τοιοῦτοι διαμένουσιν, ἐμποδίζονται δὲ τὴν γλῶτταν καὶ γίνονται τραυλοὶ ἢ μογγιλάλοι, ὅσοι τὸν τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ συνόντας ἐπὶ τῶν εἰρημένων κέντρων ἔχουσι τῷ ἡλίῳ, μάλιστα δὲ ὅταν καὶ δυτικὸς ᾖ ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ, καὶ συσχηματίζωνται ἀμφότεροι τῇ σελήνῃ. Τούτοις δ’ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως παρατυχὼν λύειν εἴωθεν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ τὸ τῆς γλώττης ἐμπόδιον, ἀφ’ οὗ ἂν ἡ σελήνη τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν συνάντησιν ποιήσηται.

     Πάλιν ἐὰν ἤτοι τὰ φῶτα ἐπικέντροις τοῖς κακοποιοῖς ἐπιφέρηται ἅμα ἢ κατὰ διάμετρον, ἢ ἐὰν τοῖς φωσὶν οἱ κακοποιοὶ καὶ μάλιστα τῆς σελήνης ἐπὶ συνδέσμων ἢ ἐπὶ καμπίων οὔσης ἢ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπαιτίων ζῳδίων, οἷον Κριοῦ, Ταύρου, Καρκίνου, Σκορπίου, Αἰγοκέρωτος, γίνονται λωβήσεις τοῦ σώματος κυρτώσεων ἢ κυλλώσεων ἢ χωλώσεων ἢ παραλύσεων, ἐὰν μὲν σὺν τοῖς φωσὶν ὦσιν οἱ κακοποιοί, ἀπὸ τῆς γενήσεως αὐτῆς, ἐὰν δὲ ἐν τοῖς μεσουρανήμασι καθυπερτεροῦντες τὰ φῶτα ἢ διαμηκίζοντες ἀλλήλους ὦσιν, ἀπὸ κινδύνων μεγάλων ὡς τῶν ἀποκρημνισμῶν ἢ συμπτώσεων ἢ λῃστηρίων ἢ τετραπόδων, Ἄρεως μὲν γὰρ ἐπικρατοῦντος τῶν διὰ πυρὸς ἢ τραυμάτων ἢ ὀχλικῶν ἢ λῃστηρίων, Κρόνου δὲ τῶν διὰ συμπτώσεων ἢ ναυαγίων ἢ σπασμῶν.

     Ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ δὲ γίνεται σίνη καὶ περὶ τὰ τροπικὰ καὶ ἰσημερινὰ σημεῖα τῆς σελήνης οὔσης, μάλιστα δὲ περὶ μὲν τὸ ἐαρινὸν τὰ δι’ ἀλφῶν, περὶ δὲ τὸ θερινὸν τὰ διὰ λειχήνων, περὶ δὲ τὸ μετοπωρινὸν τὰ διὰ λεπρῶν, περὶ δὲ τὸ χειμερινὸν τὰ διὰ φακῶν καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων. Πάθη δὲ συμβαίνειν εἴωθεν, ὅταν ἐπὶ τῶν προκειμένων στάσεων οἱ κακοποιοὶ συσχηματισθῶσι, κατὰ τὸ ἐναντίον μέντοι, τουτέστιν ἑσπέριοι μὲν τῷ ἡλίῳ τῇ δὲ σελήνῃ ἑῷοι.

     Καθόλου γὰρ ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου ψυχροκοιλίους ποιεῖ καὶ πολυφλεγμάτους καὶ ῥευματώδεις κατίσχνους τε καὶ ἀσθενικοὺς καὶ ἰκτερικοὺς καὶ δυσεντερικοὺς καὶ βηχικοὺς καὶ ἀναφορικοὺς καὶ κωλικοὺς καὶ ἐλεφαντιῶντας, τὰς δὲ γυναῖκας ἔτι καὶ ὑστερικάς· ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως αἱμοπτυϊκούς, μελαγχολικούς, πνευμονικούς, ψωριῶντας ἔτι τε τοὺς διὰ τομῶν ἢ καύσεων κρυπτῶν τόπων συνεχῶς ἐνοχλουμένους συρίγγων ἕνεκεν ἢ αἱμορροίδων ἢ κονδυλωμάτων ἢ καὶ τῶν πυρωδῶν ἑλκώσεων ἢ νομῶν, τὰς δὲ γυναῖκας ἔτι καὶ ἐκτρωσμοῖς ἢ ἐμβρυοτομίαις ἢ ἀναβρώσεσιν εἴωθε περικυλίειν.

     Ἰδίως δὲ καὶ παρὰ τὰς προειρημένας τῶν συσχηματιζομένων ἀστέρων φύσεις πρὸς τὰ μέρη τοῦ σώματος τὰ ἰδιώματα ποιοῦσι τῶν παθῶν, συνεργεῖ δὲ αὐτοῖς μάλιστα πρὸς τὰς ἐπιτάσεις τῶν φαύλων ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀστὴρ τῷ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου πρὸς τὸ ψυχρὸν συνοικειούμενος καὶ μᾶλλον ἐν κινήσει συνεχεῖ ποιῶν τοὺς ῥευματισμοὺς καὶ τὰς τῶν ὑγρῶν ὀχλήσεις, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τῶν περὶ θώρακα καὶ στόμαχον καὶ φάρυγγα, τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως πρὸς τὸ ξηραντικώτερον συνεπισχύων ὡς ἐπί τε τῶν ἑλκωδῶν ψιλώσεων καὶ ἐσχαρῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων καὶ ἐρυσιπελάτων καὶ λειχήνων ἀγρίων καὶ μελαίνης χολῆς ἢ μανίας ἢ νόσου ἱερᾶς ἢ τῶν τοιούτων.

     Καὶ παρὰ τὰς τῶν ζῳδίων δὲ ἐναλλαγὰς τῶν τοὺς προειρημένους ἐπὶ τῶν δύο κέντρων συσχηματισμοὺς περιεχόντων γίνονταί τινες ποιότητες παθῶν. Ἰδίως γὰρ ὁ μὲν Καρκίνος καὶ ὁ Αἰγόκερως καὶ οἱ Ἰχθύες καὶ ὅλως τὰ χερσαῖα καὶ τὰ ἰχθυϊκὰ ζῴδια τὰ διὰ τῶν νομῶν πάθη ποιεῖ καὶ λειχήνων ἢ λεπίδων ἢ χοιράδων ἢ συρίγγων ἢ ἐλεφαντιάσεων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων, ὁ δὲ Τοξότης καὶ οἱ Δίδυμοι τὰ διὰ πτωματισμῶν ἢ ἐπιλήψεων. Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις δὲ μοίραις παρατυγχάνοντες οἱ ἀστέρες τῶν δωδεκάτη μορίων περὶ τὰ ἄκρα μάλιστα τὰ πάθη καὶ τὰ σίνη ποιοῦσι διὰ λωβήσεων ἢ ῥευματισμῶν, ἀφ’ ὧν ἐλεφαντιάσεις τε καὶ ὡς ἐπίπαν χειράγραι καὶ ποδάγραι συμβαίνουσι.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων, ἐὰν μὲν μηδεὶς τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν συσχηματίζηται τοῖς τὰ αἴτια ποιοῦσι κακοποιοῖς ἢ τοῖς κεκεντρωμένοις φωσίν, ἀνίατα καὶ ἐπαχθῆ τά τε σίνη καὶ τὰ πάθη γενήσεται, ὡσαύτως δέ, κἂν συσχηματίζωνται μέν, καθυπερτερῶνται δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν κακοποιῶν ἐν δυνάμει ὄντων· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ κατὰ κυρίων ὄντες σχημάτων καθυπερτερῶσι τοὺς τὸ αἴτιον ἐμποιοῦντας κακοποιούς, τότε τὰ σίνη εὐσχήμονα καὶ οὐκ ἐπονείδιστα γίνεται καὶ τὰ πάθη μέτρια καὶ εὐπαρηγόρητα, ἔσθ’ ὅτε δὲ καὶ εὐαπάλλακτα ἀνατολικῶν ὄντων τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν.

     Ὁ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Διὸς βοηθείαις ἀνθρωπίναις διὰ πλούτων ἢ ἀξιωμάτων τά τε σίνη κρύπτειν εἴωθε καὶ τὰ πάθη παρηγορεῖν, σὺν δὲ τῷ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ φαρμακείαις ἢ ἰατρῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐπικουρίαις, ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης διὰ προφάσεως θεῶν καὶ χρησμῶν τὰ μὲν σίνη τρόπον τινὰ εὔμορφα καὶ ἐπιχάριτα κατασκευάζει, τὰ δὲ πάθη ταῖς ἀπὸ θεῶν ἰατρείαις εὐπαρηγόρητα, τοῦ μέντοι τοῦ Κρόνου προσόντος μετὰ παραδειγματισμῶν καὶ ἐξαγοριῶν καὶ τῶν τοιούτων, τοῦ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ μετ’ ἐπικουρίας καὶ πορισμοῦ τινος ἢ δι’ αὐτῶν τῶν σινῶν ἢ καὶ παθῶν τοῖς ἔχουσι περιγενομένου.

13. Of Bodily Injuries and Diseases

     Since the subject which comes next is that which treats of the injuries and diseases of the body, we shall attach here in regular order the method of investigation devised for this form of query. It is as follows. In this case also, to gain a general comprehension, it is necessary to look to the two angles of the horizon, that is, the orient and the occident, and especially to the occident itself and the sign preceding it, which is disjunct ¹¹⁸ from the oriental angle. We must also observe what aspect the maleficent planets bear to them. For if they, one or both of them, are stationed against the ascending degrees of the aforesaid places, either bodily on them or quartile or in opposition to them, we must conclude that the subjects born will suffer bodily injuries and disease, especially if either one or both of the luminaries as well chance to he angular in the manner described ¹¹⁹, or in opposition.

     For in that case not only if one of the maleficent planets is rising after the luminaries, but even if it is rising before them and is itself angular, it has power to produce one of the aforesaid injuries or diseases of such kind as the places of the horizon and of the signs may indicate, likewise what is indicated by the natures of the afflicting and the afflicted planets ¹²⁰, and moreover by those that bear an aspect toward them. For the parts of the individual signs of the zodiac which surround the afflicted portion of the horizon will indicate the part of the body which the portent will concern, and whether the part indicated can suffer an injury or a disease or both, and the natures of the planets produce the kinds and causes of the events that are to occur. For, of the most important parts of the human body, Saturn is lord ¹²¹ of the right ear, the spleen, the bladder, the phlegm, and the bones; Jupiter is lord of touch, the lungs, arteries, and semen; Mars of the left ear, kidneys, veins, and genitals; the sun of the sight, the brain, heart, sinews and all the right-hand parts; Venus of smell, the liver, and the flesh; Mercury of speech and thought, the tongue, the bile, and the buttocks ; the moon of taste and drinking, the stomach, belly, womb, and all the left-hand parts.

     For the most part it is a general principle that injuries occur when the significant maleficent planets are oriental, and diseases, conversely, when they are setting. The reason for this is that these two things are distinguished thus –an injury affects the subject once for all and does not involve lasting pain, while disease bears upon the patient either continuously or in sudden attacks.

     For the purpose of ascertaining particulars, certain configurations significant of injury or sickness have been specially observed, by means of the events which generally accompany such positions of the stars. For blindness in one eye is brought about when the moon by itself is upon the aforesaid angles, or is in conjunction, or is full, and when it is in another aspect that bears a relation to the sun, but applies to one of the star clusters in the zodiac, as for example to the cluster in Cancer, and to the Pleiades of Taurus, to the arrow point of Sagittarius, to the sting of Scorpio, to the parts of Leo around the Coma Berenices, or to the pitcher of Aquarius ; and whenever Mars or Saturn moves toward the moon, when it is angular and waning and they are rising, or again when they ascend before the sun, being themselves angular.

     But if they are in aspect with both luminaries at once, either in the same sign or in opposition, as we said, morning stars with respect to the sun,and evening stars to the moon, they will affect both eyes; for Mars brings about blindness from a blow, a thrust, iron, or burning; when he has Mercury in aspect, in palaestras and gymnasiums or by felonious attack. Saturn causes it by suffusion, cold, glaucoma, and the like.

     Again if Venus is upon one of the aforesaid angles, particularly the occident, if she is joined with Saturn or is in aspect with him or has exchanged houses, and is inferior to Mars or has him in opposition, the men who are born are sterile, and the women are subject to miscarriages, premature births, or even to embryotomies, particularly in Cancer, Virgo, and Capricorn ¹²². And if the moon at rising applies to Mars, and if she also bears the same aspect to Mercury that Saturn does, while Mars again is elevated above her or is in opposition, the children born are eunuchs or hermaphrodites or have no ducts and vents ¹²³.

     Since this is so, when the sun also is in aspect, if the luminaries and Venus are made masculine, the moon is waning, and the maleficent planets are approaching in the succeeding degrees, the males that are born will be deprived of their sexual organs or injured therein, particularly in Aries, Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Aquarius, and the females will be childless and sterile.

     Sometimes those who have such genitures continue not without injury to the sight also; but those suffer impediment of speech, lisp, or have difficulty in enunciation who have Saturn and Mercury joined with the sun at the aforesaid angles, particularly if Mercury is also setting and both bear some aspect to the moon. When Mars is present with them he is generally apt to loosen the impediment to the tongue, after the moon meets him.

     Again, if the luminaries, together or in opposition, move toward the maleficent planets upon the angles, or if the maleficent planets move toward the luminaries, particularly when the moon is at the nodes ¹²⁴ or her bendings, or in the injurious signs such as Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio, or Capricorn, there come about deformations of the body such as hunchback, crookedness, lameness, or paralysis, congenital if the maleficent planets are joined with the luminaries, but if they are at the mid-heaven points, elevated above the luminaries or in opposition one to the other, the deformations will result from serious dangers, such as falls from a height, the collapse of houses, or the attacks of robbers or animals. If Mars prevails, the danger is from fire, wounds, bilious attacks, or robberies; if it is Saturn, through collapse of buildings, shipwreek, or spasms.

     For the most part injuries come about when the moon is near the solstitial or equinoetial signs, particularly at the spring equinox, injuries by white leprosy; at the summer solstice, by lichens; at the fall equinox, by leprosy; at the winter solstice, by moles and the like. Diseases are likely to result when at the positions already described the maleficent planets are in aspect, but in the opposite sense, that is, evening stars with respect to the sun and morning stars to the moon.

     For in general Saturn causes his subjeets to have cold bellies, increases the phlegm, makes them rheumatic, meagre, weak, jaundiced, and prone to dysentery, coughing, raising, colic, and elephantiasis; the females he makes also subject to diseases of the womb. Mars causes men to spit blood, makes them melancholy, weakens their lungs, and causes the itch or scurvy; and furthermore he causes them to be constantly irritated by cutting or cautery of the secret parts because of fistulas, hæmorrhoids, or tumours, or also burning ulcers, or eating sores; he is apt to afflict women furthermore with miscarriages, embryotomies, or corrosive diseases.

     Of themselves, they also bring ahout the properties of disease in agreement with the natures, which have been already discussed, of the planets in aspect, as they relate to the parts of the body ¹²⁵. Mercury assists them ¹²⁶ chiefly to prolong the evil effects, when he is allied with Saturn inclining toward cold and continually stirring into activity rheumatisms and gatherings of fluid, particularly about the chest, throat, and stomach. When he is allied with Mars he adds his force to produce greater dryness, as in cases of ulcerous sore eyes, eschars ¹²⁷, abscesses, erysipelas, savage lichens or skin eruptions, black bile, insanity, the sacred disease ¹²⁸, or the like.

     Certain qualities of disease are determined by changes among the zodiacal signs which surround the aforesaid configurations on the two angles. For in particular Cancer, Capricorn, and Pisces, and in general the terrestrial and piscine signs, cause diseases involving eating sores, lichens, scales, scrofula, fistulas, elephantiasis, and the like. Sagittarius and Gemini are responsible for those that come about with falling fits or epileptic seizures. And when the planets are in the last degrees of the signs they cause diseases and injuries especially in the extremities, through lesions or rheumatism, from which elephantiasis and, in general, gout in the feet and hands result.

     Since this is the case, if no beneficent planet bears an aspect to the maleficent ones which furnish the cause, or to the luminaries on the centres, the injuries and diseases will be incurable and painful; so also, if they bear an aspect but the maleficent planets are in power and overcome them. But if the beneficent planets are themselves in the authoritative positions and overcome the maleficent planets that bear the responsibility for the evil, then the injuries are not disfiguring and do not entail reproach and the diseases are moderate and yield to treatment, and sometimes they may be easily cured, if the beneficent planets are rising.

     For Jupiter generally causes the injuries to be concealed by human aid through riches or honours, and the diseases to be mitigated; and in company with Mercury he brings this about by drugs and the aid of good physicians. And Venus contrives that through pronouncements of the gods and oracles the blemishes shall be, in a way, comely and attractive ¹²⁹, and that the diseases shall be readily moderated by divine healing; if however Saturn is by, the healing will be accompanied by exhibition and confession of the disease ¹³⁰, and such like, but if Mercury ¹³¹ is joined with her it will be with the accrual of use and gain, through the injuries and diseases themselves, to those that have them.

14. Περὶ ποιότητος ψυχῆς

     Περὶ μὲν οὖν τῶν σωματικῶν συμπτωμάτων ὁ τύπος τῆς ἐπισκέψεως τοιοῦτος ἄν τις εἴη· τῶν δὲ ψυχικῶν ποιοτήτων αἱ μὲν περὶ τὸ λογικὸν καὶ νοερὸν μέρος καταλαμβάνονται διὰ τῆς κατὰ τὸν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀστέρα θεωρουμένης ἑκάστοτε περιστάσεως, αἱ δὲ περὶ τὸ αἰσθητικὸν καὶ ἄλογον ἀπὸ τοῦ σωματωδεστέρου τῶν φώτων, τουτέστι τῆς σελήνης, καὶ τῶν πρὸς τὰς ἀπορροίας ἢ καὶ τὰς συναφὰς αὐτῆς συνεσχηματισμένων ἀστέρων.

     Πολυτροπωτάτου δ’ ὄντος τοῦ κατὰ τὰς ψυχικὰς ὁρμὰς εἴδους εἰκότως ἂν καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἐπίσκεψιν οὐχ ἁπλῶς οὐδ’ ὡς ἔτυχε ποιούμεθα, διὰ πλειόνων δὲ καὶ ποικίλων παρατηρήσεων. Καὶ γὰρ αἱ τῶν ζῳδίων τῶν περιεχόντων τόν τε τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ τὴν σελήνην ἢ τοὺς τὴν ἐπικράτησιν αὐτῶν εἰληφότας ἀστέρας διαφοραὶ πολὺ δύνανται συμβάλλεσθαι πρὸς τὰ τῶν ψυχῶν ἰδιώματα καὶ οἱ τῶν λόγον ἐχόντων πρὸς τὸ προκείμενον εἶδος ἀστέρων σχηματισμοὶ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιόν τε καὶ τὰ κέντρα καὶ ἔτι τὸ κατ’ αὐτὴν τὴν ἑκάστου τῶν ἀστέρων φύσιν πρὸς τὰς ψυχικὰς κινήσεις ἰδιότροπον.

     Τῶν μὲν οὖν ζῳδίων καθόλου τὰ μὲν τροπικὰ δημοτικωτέρας ποιεῖ τὰς ψυχάς, ὀχλικῶν τε καὶ πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ἐπιθυμητικάς, ἔτι δὲ καὶ φιλοδόξους καὶ θεοπροσπλόκους, εὐφυεῖς τε καὶ εὐκινήτους, ζητητικάς τε καὶ εὑρετικάς, εὐεικάστους καὶ ἀστρολογικὰς καὶ μαντικάς, τὰ δὲ δίσωμα ποικίλας, εὐμεταβόλους, δυσκαταλήπτους, κούφας, εὐμεταθέτους, διπλάς, ἐρωτικάς, πολυτρόπους, φιλομούσους, ῥᾳθύμους, εὐπορίστους, μεταμελητικάς, τὰ δὲ στερεὰ δικαίας, ἀκολακεύτους, ἐπιμόνους βεβαίας, συνετάς, ὑπομονητικάς, φιλοπόνους, σκληράς, ἐγκρατεῖς, μνησικάκους, ἐκβιβαστικάς, ἐριστικάς, φιλοτίμους, στασιώδεις, πλεονεκτικάς, ἀποκρότους, ἀμεταθέτους.

     Τῶν δὲ σχηματισμῶν αἱ μὲν ἀνατολικαὶ ὡροσκοπίαι καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἰδιοπροσωπίαι ἐλευθερίους καὶ ἁπλᾶς καὶ αὐθάδεις καὶ ἰσχυρὰς καὶ εὐφυεῖς καὶ ὀξείας καὶ ἀπαρακαλύπτους τὰς ψυχὰς ἀπεργάζονται, οἱ δὲ ἑῷοι στηριγμοὶ καὶ αἱ μεσουρανήσεις ἐπιλογιστικάς, ἐπιμόνους, μνημονικάς, βεβαίας, συνετάς, μεγαλόφρονας, ἀποτελεστικὰς ὧν βούλονται, ἀτρέπτους, ῥωμαλέας, ἀνεξαπατήτους, κριτικάς, ἐμπράκτους, κολαστικάς, ἐπιστημονικάς, αἱ δὲ προηγήσεις καὶ αἱ δύσεις εὐμεταθέτους καὶ ἀβεβαίους, ἀσθενεῖς, ἀφερεπόνους, ἐμπαθεῖς, ταπεινάς, δειλάς, ἀμφιβόλους, θρασυδείλους, ἀμβλείας, βλακώδεις, δυσκινήτους, οἱ δὲ ἑσπέριοι στηριγμοὶ καὶ αἱ ὑπὸ γῆν μεσουρανήσεις, ἔτι δὲ ἐφ’ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ἡμέρας μὲν αἱ ἑσπέριοι δύσεις, νυκτὸς δὲ αἱ ἑῷοι, εὐφυεῖς μὲν καὶ φρενήρεις, οὐκ ἄγαν δὲ μνημονικὰς οὐδ’ ἐπιμόχθους ἢ φιλοπόνους, διερευνητικὰς δὲ τῶν ἀποκρύφων καὶ ζητητικὰς τῶν ἀθεωρήτων, οἷον μαγικάς, μυστηριακάς, μετεωρολογικάς, ὀργανικάς, μηχανικάς, θαυματοποιούς, ἀστρολογικάς, φιλοσόφους, οἰωνοσκοπικάς, ὀνειροκριτικὰς καὶ τὰς ὁμοίας.

     Πρὸς τούτοις δὲ ἐν ἰδίοις μὲν ἢ καὶ οἰκείοις ὄντες τόποις καὶ αἱρέσεσιν οἱ τὴν κυρείαν ἔχοντες τῶν ψυχικῶν, καθ’ ὃν ἐν ἀρχῇ διωρισάμεθα τρόπον, προφανῆ καὶ ἀπαραπόδιστα καὶ αὐθέκαστα καὶ ἐπιτευκτικὰ ποιοῦσι τὰ ἰδιώματα, καὶ μάλισθ’ ὅταν οἱ αὐτοὶ τῶν δύο τόπων ἐπικρατήσωσιν ἅμα, τουτέστι τῷ μὲν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ τυγχάνωσιν ὁπωσδήποτε συνεσχηματισμένοι, τὴν δὲ τῆς σελήνης ἀπόρροιαν ἢ καὶ συναφὴν ἐπέχοντες· μὴ οὕτως δὲ διακείμενοι ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀνοικείοις ὄντες τόποις τὰ μὲν τῆς ἑαυτῶν φύσεως οἰκεῖα πρὸς τὴν ψυχικὴν ἐνέργειαν ἀνεπίφαντα καὶ ἀμαυρὰ καὶ ἀτελείωτα καὶ ἀπρόκοπα καθιστᾶσι·

     Τὰ δὲ τῆς τῶν κρατησάντων ἢ καθυπερτερησάντων ἰσχυρά τε καὶ ἐπιβλαβῆ τῶν προκειμένων, ὡς ὅταν οἵ τε διὰ τὴν τῶν κακοποιῶν οἰκείωσιν ἄδικοι καὶ πονηροὶ κρατούντων μὲν αὐτῶν εὐπροχώρητον καὶ ἀνεμπόδιστον καὶ ἀκίνδυνον καὶ ἐπίδοξον ἔχωσι τὴν πρὸς τὸ κακῶς ἄλλους ποιεῖν ὁρμήν, κρατουμένων δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς ἐναντίας αἱρέσεως κατάφοροι καὶ ἀνεπίτευκτοι καὶ ἀτιμώρητοι γίνωνται, οἱ δ’ αὖ πάλιν διὰ τὴν τῶν ἀγαθοποιούντων πρὸς τοὺς εἰρημένους ὅρους συνοικείωσιν ἀγαθοὶ καὶ δίκαιοι ἀκαθυπερτερήτων μὲν ὄντων αὐτοί τε χαίρωσι καὶ εὐφημῶνται ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν ἄλλων εὐποιίαις καὶ ὑπὸ μηδενὸς ἀδικούμενοι ἀλλ’ ὀνησιφόρον ἔχοντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην διατελῶσι, κρατουμένων δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων ἀνάπαλιν καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾷον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον καὶ ἐλεητικὸν εὐκαταφρόνητοί τε καὶ ἐπίμεμπτοι ἢ ὑπὸ τῶν πλείστων εὐαδίκητοι τυγχάνωσιν.

     Ὁ μὲν οὖν καθόλου τρόπος τῆς ἠθικῆς ἐπισκέψεως τοιοῦτός τις ἂν εἴη, τὰς δὲ κατὰ μέρος ἀπ’ αὐτῆς τῆς τῶν ἀστέρων φύσεως κατὰ τὴν κυρίαν ἀποτελουμένας ἰδιοτροπίας ἑξῆς κατὰ τὸ κεφαλαιῶδες ἐπεξελευσόμεθα μέχρι τῆς καθ’ ὁλοσχέρειαν θεωρουμένης συγκράσεως.

     Ὁ μὲν οὖν τοῦ Κρόνου ἀστὴρ μόνος τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς ψυχῆς λαβὼν καὶ αὐθεντήσας τοῦ τε Ἑρμοῦ καὶ τοῦ τῆς σελήνης, ἐὰν μὲν ἐνδόξως ἔχῃ πρός τε τὸ κοσμικὸν καὶ τὰ κέντρα, ποιεῖ φιλοσωμάτους, ἰσχυρογνώμονας, βαθύφρονας, αὐστηρούς, μονογνώμονας, ἐπιμόχθους, ἐπιτακτικούς, κολαστικούς, περιουσιαστικούς, φιλοχρημάτους, βιαίους, θησαυριστικούς, φθονερούς, ἐναντίως δὲ καὶ ἀδόξως κείμενος ῥυπαρούς, μικρολόγους, μικροψύχους, ἀδιαφόρους, κακογνώμονας, βασκάνους, δειλούς, ἀνακεχωρηκότας, κακολόγους, φιλερήμους, φιλοθρήνους, ἀναιδεῖς, δεισιδαίμονας, φιλομόχθους, ἀστόργους, ἐπιβουλευτικοὺς τῶν οἰκείων, ἀνευφράντους, μισοσωμάτους·

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς κατὰ τὸν ἐκκείμενον τρόπον συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων πάλιν διαθέσεων ποιεῖ ἀγαθούς, τιμητικοὺς τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, καθεστῶτας, καλογνώμονας, ἐπικούρους, κριτικούς, φιλοκτήμονας, μεγαλοψύχους, μεταδοτικούς, εὐπροαιρέτους, φιλοικείους, πρᾴους, συνετούς, ἀνεκτικούς, ἐμφιλοσόφους, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ἀπειροκάλους, μανιώδεις, ψοφοδεεῖς, δεισιδαίμονας, ἱεροφοιτοῦντας, ἐξαγορευτάς, ὑπόπτους, μισοτέκνους, ἀφίλους, ἐνδομύχους, ἀκρίτους, ἀπίστους, μωροκάκους, ἰώδεις, ὑποκριτικούς, ἀδρανεῖς, ἀφιλοτίμους, μεταμελητικούς, αὐστηρούς, δυσεντεύκτους, δυσπροσίτους, εὐλαβητικούς, εὐήθεις δὲ ὁμοίως καὶ ἀνεξικάκους·

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ ἀδιαφόρους, ἐπιπόνους, παρρησιαστικούς, ὀχληρούς, θρασυδείλους, αὐστηροπράκτους, ἀνελεήμονας, καταφρονητικούς, τραχεῖς, πολεμικούς, ῥιψοκινδύνους, φιλοθορύβους, δολίους, ἐνεδρευτάς, δυσμήνιδας, ἀδήκτους, ὀχλοκόπους, τυραννικούς, πλεονέκτας, μισοπολίτας, φιλέριδας, μνησικάκους, βαθυπονήρους, δράστας, ἀνυποίστους, σοβαρούς, φορτικούς, καυχηματίας, κακώτας, ἀδίκους, ἀκαταφρονήτους, μισανθρώπους, ἀτρέπτους, ἀμεταθέτους, πολυπράγμονας, εὐαναστρόφους μέντοι καὶ πρακτικοὺς καὶ ἀκαταγωνίστους καὶ ὅλως ἐπιτευκτικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ἅρπαγας, λῃστάς, νοθευτάς, κακοπαθεῖς, αἰσχροκερδεῖς, ἀθέους, ἀστόργους, ὑβριστάς, ἐπιβουλευτικούς, κλέπτας, ἐπιόρκους, μιαιφόνους, ἀθεμιτοφάγους, κακούργους, ἀνδροφόνους, φαρμακευτάς, ἱεροσύλους, ἀσεβεῖς, τυμβωρύχους καὶ ὅλως παγκάκους·

     Τῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ μισογυναίους, φιλαρχαίους, φιλερήμους, ἀηδεῖς πρὸς τὰς ἐντεύξεις, ἀφιλοτίμους, μισοκάλους, φθονερούς, αὐστηροὺς πρὸς συνουσίας, ἀσυμπεριφόρους, μονογνώμονας, φοιβαστικούς, θρησκευτάς, μυστηρίων καὶ τελετῶν ἐπιθυμητάς, ἱεροποιούς, ἐνθεαστικούς, θεοπροσπλόκους, σεμνοὺς δὲ καὶ εὐεντρέπτους, αἰδήμονας, ἐμφιλοσόφους, πιστοὺς πρὸς συμβιώσεις, ἐγκρατεῖς, ἐπιλογιστικούς, εὐλαβεῖς, ἀγανακτητάς τε καὶ πρὸς τὰς τῶν γυναικῶν ὑποψίας ζηλοτύπους, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων λάγνους, ἀσελγεῖς, αἰσχροποιούς, ἀδιαφόρους καὶ ἀκαθάρτους, πρὸς τὰς συνουσίας ἀνάγνους, ἐπιβουλευτικοὺς θηλυκῶν προσώπων καὶ μάλιστα τῶν οἰκειοτάτων, σαθρούς, παμψόγους, καταφερεῖς, μισοκάλους, μωμητικούς, κακολόγους, μεθύσους, λατρευτικούς, ὑπονοθευτάς, ἀθεμίτους, πρὸς τὰς συνελεύσεις διατιθέντας καὶ διατιθεμένους οὐ μόνον πρὸς τὰ κατὰ φύσιν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ παρὰ φύσιν, πρεσβυτέρων καὶ ἀτίμων καὶ παρανόμων καὶ θηριωδῶν μίξεων ἐπιθυμητάς, ἀσεβεῖς, θεῶν καταφρονητικούς, μυστηρίων καὶ ἱερῶν διασυρτικούς, πάμπαν ἀπίστους, διαβολικούς, φαρμακούς, παντοποιούς·

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ περιέργους, φιλοπεύστας, νομίμων ζητητικούς, φιλιάτρους, μυστικούς, μετόχους ἀποκρύφων καὶ ἀπορρήτων, τερατουργούς, παραλογιστάς, ἐφημεροβίους, ἐντρεχεῖς, διοικητικοὺς πραγμάτων καὶ ἀγχίφρονας, περιπίκρους καὶ ἀκριβεῖς, νήπτας, φιλοφρόνους, φιλοπράκτους, ἐπιτευκτικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ληρώδεις, μνησικάκους, νηλεεῖς, ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐπιμόχθους, μισοϊδίους, φιλοβασάνους, ἀνευφράντους, νυκτιρέμβους, ἐνεδρευτάς, προδότας, ἀσυμπαθεῖς, κλέπτας, μαγικούς, φαρμακευτάς, πλαστογράφους, ῥᾳδιουργούς, ἀποτευκτικούς τε καὶ εὐεμπτώτους.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς ἀστὴρ μόνος τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς ψυχῆς λαβὼν ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξου διαθέσεως ποιεῖ μεγαλοψύχους, χαριστικούς, θεοσεβεῖς, τιμητικούς, ἀπολαυστικούς, φιλανθρώπους, μεγαλοπρεπεῖς, ἐλευθερίους, δικαίους, μεγαλόφρονας, σεμνούς, ἰδιοπράγμονας, ἐλεήμονας, φιλολόγους, εὐεργετικούς, φιλοστόργους, ἡγεμονικούς. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας διαθέσεως τυγχάνων τὰς ὁμοίας μὲν φαντασίας περιποιεῖ ταῖς ψυχαῖς, ἐπὶ τὸ ταπεινότερον μέντοι καὶ ἀνεπιφαντότερον καὶ ἀκριτώτερον, οἷον ἀντὶ μὲν μεγαλοψυχίας ἀσωτίαν, ἀντὶ δὲ θεοσεβείας δεισιδαιμονίαν, ἀντὶ δὲ αἰδοῦς δειλίαν, ἀντὶ δὲ σεμνότητος οἴησιν, ἀντὶ δὲ φιλανθρωπίας εὐήθειαν, ἀντὶ δὲ φιλοκαλίας φιληδονίαν, ἀντὶ δὲ μεγαλοφροσύνης βλακείαν, ἀντὶ δὲ ἐλευθεριότητος ἀδιαφορίαν, καὶ ὅσα τούτοις παραπλήσια.

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ τραχεῖς, μαχίμους, στρατηγικούς, διοικητικούς, κεκινημένους, ἀνυποτάκτους, θερμούς, παραβόλους, παρρησιαστάς, πρακτικούς, ἐλεγκτικούς, ἀνυτικούς, φιλονείκους, ἀρχικούς, εὐεπιβούλους, ἐπιεικεῖς, ἐπάνδρους, νικητικούς, μεγαλοψύχους δὲ καὶ φιλοτίμους καὶ θυμικοὺς καὶ κριτικοὺς καὶ ἐπιτευκτικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ὑβριστάς, ἀδιαφόρους, ὠμούς, ἀνεξιλάστους, στασιαστάς, ἐριστικούς, μονοπόνους, διαβόλους, οἰηματίας, πλεονέκτας, ἅρπαγας, ταχυμεταβόλους, κούφους, μεταμελητικούς, ἀστάτους, προπετεῖς, ἀπίστους, ἀκρίτους, ἀγνώμονας, ἐκστατικούς, ἐμπατάκτους, μεμψιμοίρους, ἀσώτους, ληρώδεις καὶ ὅλως ἀνωμάλους καὶ παρακεκινημένους.

     Τῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ καθαρίους, ἀπολαυστικούς, φιλοκάλους, φιλοτέκνους, φιλοθεώρους, φιλομούσους, ᾠδικούς, φιλοτρόφους, εὐήθεις, εὐεργετικούς, ἐλεητικούς, ἀκάκους, φιλοθέους, ἀσκητάς, φιλαγωνιστάς, φρονίμους, φιλητικούς, ἐπαφροδίτους ἐν τῷ σεμνῷ, λαμπροψύχους, εὐγνώμονας, μεταδοτικούς, φιλογραμμάτους, κριτικούς, συμμέτρους καὶ εὐσχήμονας πρὸς τὰ ἀφροδίσια, φιλοικείους, εὐσεβεῖς, φιλοδικαίους, φιλοκώμους, φιλοδόξους καὶ ὅλως καλούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων τρυφητάς, ἡδυβίους, θηλυψύχους, ὀρχηστικούς, γυναικοθύμους, δαπάνους, καταγυναίους, ἐρωτικούς, λάγνους, καταφερεῖς, μοιχούς, φιλοκόσμους, ὑπομαλάκους, ῥᾳθύμους, ἀσώτους, ἐπιμώμους, ἐμπαθεῖς, καλλωπιστάς, γυναικονοήμονας, ἱερῶν ἐγκατόχους, προαγωγικούς, μυστηριακούς, πιστοὺς μέντοι καὶ ἀπονήρους καὶ ἐπιχαρίτους καὶ εὐπροσίτους καὶ εὐδιαγώγους καὶ πρὸς τὰς συμφορὰς ἐλευθεριωτέρους·

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ πολυγραμμάτους, φιλολόγους, γεωμέτρας, μαθηματικούς, ποιητικούς, δημηγορικούς, εὐφυεῖς, σωφρονικούς, ἀγαθόφρονας, καλοσυμβούλους, πολιτικούς, εὐεργετικούς, ἐπιτροπικούς, χρηστοήθεις, φιλοδώρους, φιλόχλους, εὐεπιβούλους, ἐπιτευκτικούς, ἡγεμονικούς, εὐσεβεῖς, φιλοθέους, εὐχρηματίστους, φιλοστόργους, φιλοικείους, εὐπαιδεύτους, ἐμφιλοσόφους, ἀξιωματικούς· ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων εὐήθεις, ληρώδεις, σφαλλομένους, εὐκαταφρονήτους, ἐνθουσιαστικούς, θεοπροσπλόκους, φληνάφους, ὑποπίκρους, προσποιησισόφους, ἀνοήτους, ἀλαζονικούς, ἐπιτηδευτάς, μαγευτικούς, ὑποκεκινημένους, πολυίστορας δὲ καὶ μνημονικοὺς καὶ διδασκαλικοὺς καὶ καθαρίους ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως ἀστὴρ μόνος τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς ψυχῆς λαβὼν ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξου διαθέσεως ποιεῖ γενναίους, ἀρχικούς, θυμικούς, φιλόπλους, πολυτρόπους, σθεναρούς, παραβόλους, ῥιψοκινδύνους, ἀνυποτάκτους, ἀδιαφόρους, μονοτόνους, ὀξεῖς, αὐθάδεις, καταφρονητικούς, τυραννικούς, δράστας, ὀργίλους, ἡγεμονικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας ὠμούς, ὑβριστάς, φιλαίμους, φιλοθορύβους, δαπάνους, κραυγαστάς, πλήκτας, προπετεῖς, μεθύσους, ἅρπαγας, ἀνελεήμονας, κακούργους, τεταραγμένους, μανιώδεις, μισοικείους, ἀθέους.

     Τῷ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ ἐπιχάριτας, εὐδιαγώγους, φιλεταίρους, ἡδυβίους, εὐφροσύνους, παιγνιώδεις, ἀφελεῖς, εὐρύθμους, φιλορχηστάς, ἐρωτικούς, φιλοτέκνους, μιμητικούς, ἀπολαυστικούς, διασκευαστάς, ἐπάνδρους καὶ εὐκαταφόρους μὲν πρὸς τὰς ἀφροδισιακὰς ἁμαρτίας, ἐπιτευκτικοὺς δὲ καὶ εὐπεριστόλους καὶ νουνεχεῖς καὶ δυσεξελέγκτους καὶ ἀδιακρίτους, ἔτι δὲ νέων ἐπιθυμητικοὺς ἀρρένων τε καὶ θηλειῶν, δαπάνους τε καὶ ὀξυθύμους καὶ ζηλοτύπους, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων ῥιψοφθάλμους, λάγνους, καταφερεῖς, διασύρτας, μοιχικούς, ὑβριστάς, ψεύστας, δολοπλόκους, ὑπονοθευτὰς οἰκείων τε καὶ ἀλλοτρίων, ὀξεῖς ἅμα καὶ προσκορεῖς πρὸς τὰς ἐπιθυμίας, διαφθορεῖς γυναικῶν καὶ παρθένων, παραβόλους, θερμούς, ἀτάκτους, ἐνεδρευτάς, ἐπιόρκους, εὐεμπτώτους τε καὶ φρενοβλαβεῖς, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ἀσώτους, φιλοκόσμους καὶ θρασεῖς καὶ διατιθεμένους καὶ ἀσελγαίνοντας.

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ στρατηγικούς, δεινούς, δράστας, εὐκινήτους, ἀκαταφρονήτους, πολυτρόπους, εὑρετικούς, σοφιστάς, ἐπιπόνους, πανούργους, προγλώσσους, ἐπιθετικούς, δολίους, ἀστάτους, μεθοδευτάς, κακοτέχνους, ὀξύφρονας, ἐξαπατητάς, ὑποκριτικούς, ἐνεδρευτάς, κακοτρόπους, πολυπράγμονας, φιλοπονήρους, ἐπιτευκτικοὺς δ’ ἄλλως καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοίους εὐσυνθέτους καὶ εὐσυνδεξιάστους καὶ ὅλως ἐχθρῶν μὲν βλαπτικούς, φίλων δὲ εὐποιητικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων δαπάνους, πλεονέκτας, ὠμούς, παραβόλους, τολμηρούς, μεταμελητικούς, ἐμπατάκτους, παρακεκινημένους, ψεύστας, κλέπτας, ἀθέους, ἐπιόρκους, ἐπιθέτας, στασιαστάς, ἐμπρηστάς, θεατροκόπους, ἐφυβρίστους, λῃστρικούς, τοιχωρύχους, μιαιφόνους, πλαστογράφους, ῥᾳδιουργούς, γόητας, μάγους, φαρμάκους, ἀνδροφόνους.

     Ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης μόνος τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς ψυχῆς λαβὼν ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξου διαθέσεως ποιεῖ προσηνεῖς, ἀγαθούς, τρυφητάς, λογίους, καθαρίους, εὐφροσύνους, φιλορχηστάς, καλοζήλους, μισοπονήρους, φιλοτέχνους, φιλοθεωτάτους, εὐσχήμονας, εὐεκτικούς, εὐονείρους, φιλοστόργους, εὐεργετικούς, ἐλεήμονας, σικχούς, εὐσυναλλάκτους, ἐπιτευκτικοὺς καὶ ὅλως ἐπαφροδίτους, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας ῥᾳθύμους, ἐρωτικούς, τεθηλυσμένους, γυναικώδεις, ἀτόλμους, ἀδιαφόρους, καταφερεῖς, ἐπιψόγους, ἀνεπιφάντους, ἐπονειδίστους.

     Τῷ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ συνοικειωθεὶς ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξων διαθέσεων ποιεῖ φιλοτέχνους, ἐμφιλοσόφους, ἐπιστημονικούς, εὐφυεῖς, ποιητικούς, φιλομούσους, φιλοκάλους, χρηστοήθεις, ἀπολαυστικούς, τρυφεροδιαίτους, εὐφροσύνους, φιλοφίλους, εὐσεβεῖς, συνετούς, πολυμηχάνους, διανοητικούς, εὐεπιβούλους, κατορθωτικούς, ταχυμαθεῖς, αὐτοδιδάκτους, ζηλωτὰς τῶν ἀρίστων, μιμητὰς τῶν καλῶν, εὐστόμους καὶ ἐπιχάριτας τῷ λόγῳ, ἐρασμίους, εὐαρμόστους, τοῖς ἤθεσι σπουδαίους, φιλάθλους, ὀρθούς, κριτικούς, μεγαλόφρονας, τῶν δὲ ἀφροδισίων πρὸς μὲν τὰ γυναικεῖα φυλακτικούς, πρὸς δὲ τὰ παιδικὰ μᾶλλον κεκινημένους καὶ ζηλοτύπους, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας ἐπιθέτας, πολυμηχάνους, κακοστόμους, ἀλλοπροσάλλους, κακογνώμονας, ἐξαπατητάς, κυκητάς, ψεύστας, διαβόλους, ἐπιόρκους, βαθυπονήρους, ἐπιβουλευτικούς, ἀσυνθέτους, ἀδεξιάστους, νοθευτάς, γυναικῶν διαφθορέας καὶ παίδων, ἔτι δὲ καλλωπιστάς, ὑπομαλάκους, ἐπιψόγους, κακοφήμους, πολυθρυλλήτους, παντοπράκτας καὶ ἐνίοτε μὲν ἐπὶ διαφθορᾷ τὰ τοιαῦτα ὑποκρινομένους, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ταῖς ἀληθείαις διατιθεμένους τε καὶ αἰσχροποιοῦντας καὶ ποικίλοις πάθεσιν ὑβριζομένους.

     Ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀστὴρ μόνος τὴν οἰκοδεσποτείαν τῆς ψυχῆς λαβὼν ἐπὶ μὲν ἐνδόξου διαθέσεως ποιεῖ τοὺς γεννωμένους συνετούς, ἀγχίνους, νοήμονας, πολυίστορας, εὑρετικούς, ἐμπείρους, λογικούς, φυσιολόγους, θεωρητικούς, εὐφυεῖς, ζηλωτικούς, εὐεργετικούς, ἐπιλογιστικούς, εὐστόχους, μαθηματικούς, μυστηριακούς, ἐπιτευκτικούς, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἐναντίας πανούργους, προπετεῖς, ἐπιλήσμονας, ὁρμητάς, κούφους, εὐμεταβόλους, μεταμελητικούς, μωροκάκους, ἄφρονας, ἁμαρτωλούς, ψεύστας, ἀδιαφόρους, ἀστάτους, ἀπίστους, πλεονέκτας, ἀδίκους καὶ ὅλως σφαλερούς τε τῇ διανοίᾳ καὶ καταφόρους τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασι.

     Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων συμβάλλεται μέντοι καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ τῆς σελήνης κατάστασις, ἐπειδήπερ ἐν μὲν ταῖς καμπίαις τυγχάνουσα τοῦ τε νοτίου καὶ βορείου πέρατος συνεργεῖ τοῖς ψυχικοῖς ἰδιώμασιν ἐπὶ τὸ πολυτροπώτερον καὶ τὸ πολυμηχανώτερον καὶ εὐμεταβολώτερον, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν συνδέσμων ἐπὶ τὸ ὀξύτερον καὶ πρακτικώτερον καὶ εὐκινητότερον· ἔτι δὲ ἐν μὲν ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς καὶ ταῖς τῶν φώτων αὐξήσεσιν ἐπὶ τὸ εὐφυέστερον καὶ προφανέστερον καὶ βεβαιότερον καὶ παρρησιαστικώτερον, ἐν δὲ ταῖς μειώσεσι τῶν φώτων ἢ ταῖς κρύψεσιν ἐπὶ τὸ νωχελέστερον καὶ ἀμβλύτερον καὶ μεταμελητικώτερον καὶ εὐλαβέστερον καὶ ἀνεπιφανέστερον·

     Συμβάλλεται δὲ καὶ ὁ ἥλιος συνοικειωθείς πως τῷ τῆς ψυχικῆς κράσεως οἰκοδεσποτήσαντι κατὰ μὲν τὸ ἔνδοξον πάλιν τῆς διαθέσεως ἐπὶ τὸ δικαιότερον καὶ ἀνυτικώτερον καὶ τιμητικώτερον καὶ σεμνότερον καὶ θεοσεβέστερον, κατὰ δὲ τὸ ἐναντίον καὶ ἀνοίκειον ἐπὶ τὸ ταπεινότερον καὶ ἐπιπονώτερον καὶ ἀσεμνότερον καὶ ὠμότερον καὶ μονογνωμονέστερον καὶ αὐστηρότερον καὶ δυσδιαγωγότερον καὶ ὅλως ἐπὶ τὸ δυσκατορθώτερον.

14. Of the Quality of the Soul

     The character, then, of the inquiry into bodily affections would be of this sort. Of the qualities of the soul, those which concern the reason and the mind are apprehended by means of the condition of Mercury observed on the particular occasion; and the qualities of the sensory and irrational part are discovered from the one of the luminaries which is the more corporeal, that is, the moon, and from the planets which are configurated with her in her separations and applications ¹³².

     But since the variety of the impulses of the soul is great, it stands to reason that we would make such an inquiry in no simple or offhand manner, but by means of many complicated observations. For indeed the differences between the signs which contain Mercury and the moon, or the planets that dominate them, can contribute much to the character of the soul; so likewise do the aspects to the sun and the angles shown by the planets that are related to the class of qualities under consideration, and, furthermore, that peculiar natural quality of each one of the planets which relates to the movements of the soul.

     Of the signs of the zodiac in general, then, the solstitial signs produce souls fitted for deaIing with the people, fond of turbulence and political activity, glory-seeking, moreover, and attentive to the gods, noble, mobile, inquisitive, inventive, good at conjecture, and fitted for astrology and divination. The bicorporeal signs make souls complex, changeable, hard to apprehend, light, unstable, fickle, amorous, versatile, fond of music, lazy, easily acquisitive, prone to change their minds. The solid signs make them just, unaffected by flattery, persistent, firm, intelligent, patient, industriens, stern, self­controlled, tenacious of grudges, extortionate, contentious, ambitious, factious, grasping, hard, inflexible.

     Of configurations, positions in the orient and at the horoscope, and in particular those which are in proper face ¹³³, produce liberal, simple, self-willed, strong, noble, keen, open souls. Morning stations and culminations make them calculating, patient, of good memory, firm, intelligent, magnanimous, accomplishing what they desire, inflexible, robust, rough, not readily deceived, critical, practical, prone to inflict Punishment, gifted with understanding. Precessions ¹³⁴ and settings make them easily changed, unstable, weak, unable to bear labour, emotional, humble, cowardly, deceitful, bullying, dull, slow­witted, hard to arouse. Evening stations and position at mid-heaven beneath the earth, and further­more, in the case of Mercury and Venus, by day evening settings and by night morning settings, produce souls noble and wise, but with mediocre memory, not painstaking nor fond of labour, but investigators of hidden things and seekers after the unknown, as for example magicians, adepts in the mysteries, meteorologists, makers of instruments and machines, conjurors, astrologers, philosophers, readers of omans, interpretere of dreams, and the like.

     When, in addition, the governors of the soul, as we explained at the beginning, are in their own or familiar houses or sects ¹³⁵, they make the characters of the soul open, unimpeded, spontaneous, and effective, especially when the same planets rule the two places at once, that is, when they are configurated to Mercury in any aspect whatever, and hold the separation or application of the moon ¹³⁶; if they are not so disposed, however, but are in places alien to them, it renders the properties of their own natures obscure, indistinct, imperfect, and ineffective with respect to the active quality of the soul.

     The powers, however, of the nature of the planets that dominate or overcome ¹³⁷ them are vigorous and injurious to the subjects. Thus men who, by reason of the familiarity of the maleficent planets, are unjust and evil, find their impulse to injure one another easy, unimpeded, secure, and honourable, if those planets are in power; but if they are overcome by planets of the opposite sect, the men are lethargic, ineffective, and easily punished. And those again that through the familiarity of the beneficent planets to the aforesaid boundaries are good and just, if these planets are not overcome, are themselves happy and bear a good repute for their kindness to others, and, injured by none, continue to benefit from their own justice; if, however, the good planets are dominated by opposites, simply because of their gentleness, kindness, and compassion, they suffer from contempt and reproach or even may easily be wronged by most people.

     This, then, is the general method of inquiry as to character. We shall next briefly consider, in due order, the particular traits resulting from the very nature of the planets, in this kind of domination, until the theory of mixture has been treated in its most important aspects.

     If Saturn alone is ruler of the soul and dominates Mercury and the moon, if he has a dignified position with reference to the universe and the angles ¹³⁸, he makes his subjects lovers of the body ¹³⁹, strong­minded, deep thinkers, austere, of a single purpose, laborious, dictatorial, ready to punish, lovers of property, avaricious, violent, amassing treasure, and jealous; but if his position is the opposite and without dignity, he makes them sordid, petty, mean-spirited, indifferent, mean-minded, malignant, cowardly, diffident, evil-speakers, solitary, tearful, shameless, superstitious; fond of toil, unfeeling, devisers of plots against their friends, gloomy, taking no care of the body.

     Saturn, allied with Jupiter in the way described, again in dignified positions, makes his subjects good, respectful to elders, sedate, noble-minded, helpful ¹⁴⁰, critical, fond of possessions, magnanimous, generous, of good intentions, lovers of their friends, gentle, wise, patient, philosophical; but in the opposite positions, he makes them uncultured, mad, easily frightened, superstitious, frequenters of shrines, public confessors of ailments, suspicious, hating their own children, friendless, hiding within doors, without judgement, faithless, knavishly foolish, venomous, hypocritical, ineffective, unambitious, prone to change their minds, stern, hard to speak with or to approach, cautious, but nevertheless foolish and submissive to abuse.

     Saturn, allied with Mars, in honourable positions makes his subjects neither good nor bad, industrious, outspoken, nuisances, cowardly braggarts, harsh in conduct, without pity, contemptuous, rough, contentious, rash, disorderly, deceitful, layers of ambushes, tenacious of anger, unmoved by pleading, courting the mob, tyrannical, grasping, haters of the citizenry, fond of strife, malignant, evil through and through, active, impatient, blustering, vulgar, boastful, injurious, unjust, not to be despised, haters of mankind, inflexible, unchangeable, busy-bodies, but at the same time adroit and practical, not to be overborne by rivals, and in general successful in achieving their ends. In the opposite positions he makes his subjects robbers, pirates, adulterators, submissive to disgraceful treatment, takers of base profits, godless, without affection, insulting, crafty, thieves, perjurers, murderers, eaters of forbidden foods, evildoers, homicides, poisoners, impious, robbers of temples and of tombs, and utterly depraved.

     Allied with Venus in honourable positions Saturn makes his subjects haters of women, lovers of antiquity, solitary, unpleasant to meet, unambitious, hating the beautiful, envious, stern in social relations, not companionable, of fixed opinions, prophetic, given to the practice of religions rites, lovers of mysteries and initiations, performers of sacrificial rites, mystics, religions addicts, but dignified and reverent; modest, philosophical, faithful in marriage ¹⁴¹, self-controlled, calculating, cautious, quick to take offence, and easily led by jealousy to be suspicious of their wives. In positions of the opposite kind he makes them loose, lascivious, doers of base acts, undiscriminating and unclean in sexual relations, impure, deceivers of women and particularly their own kin, unsound, censorious, depraved, hating the beautiful, fault-finders, evil-speakers, drunken, servile, adulterators, lawless in sexual relations, both active and passive, both natural and unnatural, and willing to seek them with those barred by age, station, or law, or with animals, impious, contemptuous of the gods, deriding mysteries and sacred rites, entirely faithless, slanderous, poisoners, rogues who will stop at nothing.

     Saturn, in familiarity with Mercury, in honourable positions makes his subjects meddlers, inquisitive, inquirers into matters of law and custom, fond of the art of medicine, mystics, partakers in concealed and secret rites, miracle-workers, cheaters, living only for the day, facile, able to direct business, shrewd, bitter, accurate, sober, friendly, fond of practical affairs, capable of gaining their ends. In dishonourable positions he makes them frivolous talkers, malignant, with no pity in their souls, given to toil, hating their own kin, fond of torment, gloomy, night-prowlers, layers of ambushes, traitors, unsympathetic, thieves, magicians, poisoners, forgers, unscrupulous, unfortunate, and usually unsuccessful.

     If Jupiter alone has the domination of the soul, in honourable positions he makes his subjects magnanimous, generous, god-fearing, honourable, pleasure­loving, kind, magnificent, liberal, just, highminded, dignified, minding their own business, compassionate, fond of discussion, beneficent, affectionate, with qualities of leadership. If he chances to be in the opposite kind of position, he makes their souls seem similar, to be sure, but with a difference in the direction of greater humility, less conspicuousness, and poorer judgement ¹⁴². For example, instead of magnanimity, he endows them with prodigality; instead of reverence for the gods, with superstition; instead of modesty, with cowardice; instead of dignity, with conceit; instead of kindness, with foolish simplicity; instead of the love of beauty, with love of pleasure; instead of high-mindedness, with stupidity; instead of liberality, with indifference, and the like.

     Jupiter allied with Mars in honourable positions makes his subjects rough, pugnacious, military, managerial, restless, unruly, ardent, reckless, practical, outspoken, critical, effective, contentious, commanding, given to plotting, respectable, virile, fond of victory, but magnanimous, ambitious, passionate, judicious, successful. In the opposite position he makes then insolent, undiscriminating, savage, implacable, seditious, contentious, stubborn, slanderous, conceited, avaricious, rapacious, quickly changeable, light, readily changing their minds, unstable, head­strong, untrustworthy, of poor judgement, unfeeling, excitable, active, querulous, prodigal, gossipy, and in all ways uneven and easily excited.

     Jupiter, allied with Venus, in honourahle positions makes his subjects pure, pleasure-loving, lovers of the beautiful, of children, of spectacles, and of the domain of the Muses, singels, fond of those who reared them, of good character ¹⁴³, beneficent, compassionate, guileless, religious, prone to athletic training, fond of competition, wise, affectionate, charming in a dignified way, magnanimous, fair, charitable, fond of learning, of good judgement, moderate and decorous in matters of love, fond of their kinsfolk, pious, just, ambitious, seekers after glory, and in general gentlemanly. In the opposite positions he renders them luxurious, soft-livers, effeminate, fond of the dance, womanly in spirit, lavish in expenditure, evil in relations with women, erotic, lascivious, lecherous, slanderous, adulterous, lovers of ornament, rather saft, lazy, profligate, given to fault-finding, passionate, adorners of their persons, womanly minded, infatuated by religious rites, panderers, frequenters of the mysteries, trust­worthy however and not rascally, but gracious, easy of approach, and cheerful, and inclined to liberality in misfortune.

     Jupiter allied with Mercury in honourable positions makes his subjects learned, fond of discussion, geometricians, mathematicians, Facts, orators, gifted, sober, of good intellect, good in counsel, statesmen, benefactors, managers, good natured, generous, lovers of the mob, shrewd, successful, leaders, reverent, religious, skilful in business, affectionate, lovers of their own kin, well brought up, philosophical, dignified. In the opposite positions he makes them simple, garrulous, prone to make mistakes, contemptible, fanatical, religious enthusiasts, speakere of folly, inclined to bitterness, pretenders to wisdom, fools, boasters, students, magicians, somewhat deranged, but well informed, of good memory, teachers, and pure in their desires.

     Mars alone, given the domination of the soul, in an honourable position makes his subjects noble, commanding, spirited, military, versatile ¹⁴⁴, powerful, venturesome, rash, unruly, indifferent, stubborn, keen, headstrong, contemptuous, tyrannical, active, easily angered, with the qualities of leadership. In a position of the opposite kind he makes them savage, insolent, bloodthirsty, makers of disturbances, spendthrifts, loud-mouthed, quick-fisted, impetuous, drunken, rapacious, evil-doers, pitiless, unsettled, mad, haters of their own kin, impious.

     Allied with Venus, in honourable positions, Mars makes his subjects pleasing, cheerful, friendly, soft­living, happy, playful, artless, graceful, fond of dancing, erotic, artistic, imitative, pleasure-loving, able to secure themselves property ¹⁴⁵, masculine, and given to misconduct in matters of love, but still successful, circumspect, and sensible, difficult to convict and discreet, furthermore passionate for both young men and young women, spendthrifts, quick-tempered, and jealous. In contrary positions he makes them leering, lascivious, profligate, indifferent, slanderers, adulterers, insolent, liars, deceivers, seducers of those both in their own families and in those of others, at the same time keen and insatiate of pleasure, corrupters of women and maidens, venture­some, ardent, unruly, treacherous, perjurers, easily influenced and of unsound mind, but sometimes like­wise profligate, fond of adornment, bold, disposed to base practices, and shameless.

     Allied with Mercury, in honourable positions Mars makes his subjects leaders of armies, skilful, vigorous, active, not to be despised, resourceful, inventive, sophistic, painstaking, rascally, talkative, pugnacious, tricky, unstable, systematic workers, practising evil arts, keen-witted, deceitful, hypocritical, insidious, of bad character, meddlers, inclined to rascality but nevertheless successful and capable of keeping contract and faith with persons like themselves, and in general injurious to their enemies and helpful to their friends. In opposite positions he makes them spendthrifts, avaricious, savage, venturesome, daring, prone to change their minds, excitable, easily aroused, liars, thieves, impious, perjurers, ready to take the offensive, seditious, kindlers of fires, creators of disturbances in the theatre, insolent, piratical, burglars, murderers, forgers, villains, wizards, magicians, sorcerers, homicides.

     If Venus alone takes the domination of the soul, in an honourable position she makes her subjects pleasant, good, luxurious ¹⁴⁶, eloquent, neat, cheerful, fond of dancing, eager for beauty, haters of evil, lovers of the arts, fond of spectacles, decorous, healthy, dreamers of pleasant dreams, affectionate, beneficent, compassionate, fastidious, easily conciliated, successful, and, in general, charming. In the opposite position she makes them careless, erotic, effeminate, womanish, timid, indifferent, depraved, censorious, insignificant, meriting reproach.

     Joined with Mercury, in honorable positions Venus makes them artistic, philosophical, gifted with understanding, talented, poetic, lovers of the muses, lovers of beauty, of worthy character, seekers after enjoyment, luxurious, happy ¹⁴⁷, fond of friends, pious, sagacious, resourceful, intellectual, intelligent, successful, quick to learn ¹⁴⁸, self-taught, seekers after the best, imitators of beauty, eloquent and pleasing in speech, commanding affection, of well-ordered character, earnest, fond of athletics, upright, of good judgement, magnanimous; in affairs of love, restrained in their relations with women but more passionate for boys, and jealous. In the contrary position she makes them pugnacious, resourceful, evil-speakers, unstable, of bad intentions, deceivers, agitators, liars, slanderers, perjurers, thorough rascals, plotters, faithless, unreliable, adulterators, corrupters of women and children; furthermore, adorners of their persons, rather effeminate, malicious in censure and in gossip, garrulous, villains, sometimes ¹⁴⁹ feigning such acts with a view to corruption and sometimes performing them in earnest, lending themselves to base acts and performing them, and subjected to all sorts of base treatment.

     Mercury, by himself taking the domination of the soul, in an honourable position makes those who are born under him wise, shrewd, thoughtful, learned, inventive, experienced, good calculators, inquirers into nature, speculative, gifted, emulous, beneficent, prudent, good at conjecture, mathematicians, partakers in mysteries, successful in attaining their ends. In the opposite position he makes them utter rascals, precipitate, forgetful, impetuous, light-minded, fickle, prone to change their minds, foolish rogues, witless, sinful, liars, undiscriminating, unstable, undependable, avaricious, unjust, and, in general, unsteady in judgement and inclined to evil deeds.

     While the foregoing is true as stated, nevertheless the condition of the moon itself also makes a certain contribution. For when the moon happens to be at the bendings of its northern and southern limits ¹⁵⁰, it helps ¹⁵¹; with respect to the character of the soul, in the direction of greater versatility, resourcefulness, and capacity for change; at the nodes, in the direction of greater keenness, activity, and excitability; again, at rising and in the increases of its illumination,. towards greater natural endowments, renown, firmness, and frankness; and in the waning of its illumination, or its occultations, towards greater sluggishness and dullness, less fixity of purpose, greater cautiousness, and less renown.

     The sun also aids, when it is familiar with the planet that governs the temperament of the soul, in an honourable position modifying it in the direction of justice, success, honour, dignity, and reverence for the gods, but in the contrary and alien position making it humbler, more industrious, less conspicuous, more savage, more obstinate, harsher, with a harder life, and in general less successful.

15. Περὶ παθῶν ψυχικῶν

     Ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς ἰδιώμασιν ἀκολουθεῖ πως καὶ ὁ περὶ τῶν ἐξαιρέτων αὐτῆς παθῶν λόγος, καθόλου μὲν πάλιν ἐπισημαίνεσθαι καὶ παρατηρεῖν προσήκει τόν τε τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ ἀστέρα καὶ τὴν σελήνην, πῶς ἔχουσι πρός τε ἀλλήλους καὶ τὰ κέντρα καὶ τοὺς πρὸς κάκωσιν οἰκείους τῶν ἀστέρων, ὡς ἐάν τε αὐτοὶ ἀσύνδετοι ὄντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἐάν τε πρὸς τὸν ἀνατολικὸν ὁρίζοντα καθυπερτερηθῶσιν ἢ ἐμπερισχεθῶσιν ἢ διαμηκισθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνοικείως καὶ βλαπτικῶς ἐσχηματισμένων, ποικίλων παθῶν περὶ τὰς ψυχικὰς ἰδιοτροπίας συμπιπτόντων εἰσὶ ποιητικοί. Τῆς διακρίσεως αὐτῶν πάλιν θεωρουμένης ἀπὸ τῆς προκατειλημμένης τῶν τοῖς τόποις συνοικειωθέντων ἀστέρων ἰδιοτροπίας.

     Τὰ μὲν οὖν πλεῖστα τῶν μετριωτέρων παθῶν σχεδὸν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν περὶ τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς ἰδιωμάτων ῥηθεῖσι διακέκριται τῆς ἐπιτάσεως αὐτῶν ἐκ τῆς τῶν κακούντων ὑπερβολῆς συνορᾶσθαι δυναμένης, ἐπειδήπερ ἤδη τις ἂν εἰκότως εἴποι πάθη καὶ τὰ ἄκρα τῶν ἠθῶν καὶ ἤτοι ἐλλείποντα ἢ καὶ πλεονάζοντα τῆς μεσότητος· τὰ δὲ ἐξαίρετον ἔχοντα τὴν ἀμετρίαν καὶ ὥσπερ νοσηματώδη καὶ παρὰ ὅλην τὴν φύσιν καὶ περὶ αὐτὸ τὸ διανοητικὸν τῆς ψυχῆς μέρος καὶ περὶ τὸ παθητικὸν ὡς ἐν τύπῳ τοιαύτης ἔτυχε παρατηρήσεως. Ἐπιληπτικοὶ μὲν γὰρ ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ γίνονται, ὅσοι τῆς σελήνης καὶ τοῦ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ, ὥσπερ εἴπομεν, ἢ ἀλλήλοις ἢ τῷ ἀνατολικῷ ὁρίζοντι ἀσυνδέτων ὄντων τὸν μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου ἡμέρας, τὸν δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως νυκτός, ἔχουσιν ἐπίκεντρον καὶ κατοπτεύοντα τὸ προκείμενον σχῆμα, μανιώδεις δέ, ὅταν ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνάπαλιν ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου νυκτός, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως ἡμέρας, κεκυριευκὼς ᾖ τοῦ σχήματος, καὶ μάλιστα ἐν Καρκίνῳ ἢ Παρθένῳ ἢ Ἰχθύσι, δαιμονιόπληκτοι δὲ καὶ ὑγροκέφαλοι, ὅταν οὕτως ἔχοντες οἱ κακοποιοῦντες ἐπὶ φάσεως οὖσαν κατέχωσι τὴν σελήνην, ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου συνοδεύουσαν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἄρεως πανσεληνιάζουσαν, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν Τοξότῃ καὶ Ἰχθύσι.

     Μόνοι μὲν οὖν οἱ κακοποιοὶ κατὰ τὸν προειρημένον τρόπον τὴν ἐπικράτησιν τοῦ σχήματος λαβόντες ἀνίατα μὲν ἀνεπίφαντα δὲ ὅμως καὶ ἀπαραδειγμάτιστα ποιοῦσι τὰ προκείμενα τοῦ διανοητικοῦ τῆς ψυχῆς νοσήματα· συνοικειωθέντων δὲ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν Διός τε καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν λιβικῶν μερῶν ὄντες αὐτοὶ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἐν τοῖς ἀπηλιωτικοῖς κεκεντρωμένων ἰάσιμα μὲν εὐπαραδειγμάτιστα δὲ ποιοῦσι τὰ πάθη. Ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ τοῦ Διὸς διὰ θεραπειῶν ἰατρικῶν καὶ ἤτοι διαιτητικῆς ἀγωγῆς ἢ φαρμακείας, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης διὰ χρησμῶν καὶ τῆς ἀπὸ θεῶν ἐπικουρίας, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἀπηλιωτικῶν αὐτοὶ κεκεντρωμένοι τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν δυνόντων ἀνίατά τε ἅμα καὶ πολυθρύλλητα καὶ ἐπιφανέστατα ποιοῦσι τὰ νοσήματα, κατὰ μὲν τὰς ἐπιληψίας συνεχείαις καὶ περιβοησίαις καὶ κινδύνοις θανατικοῖς τοὺς πάσχοντας περικυλίοντες, κατὰ δὲ τὰς μανίας καὶ ἐκστάσεις ἀκατασχεσίαις καὶ ἀπαλλοτριώσεσι τῶν οἰκείων καὶ γυμνητείαις καὶ βλασφημίαις καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, κατὰ δὲ τὰς δαιμονιοπληξίας ἢ τὰς τῶν ὑγρῶν ὀχλήσεις ἐνθουσιασμοῖς καὶ ἐξαγορείαις καὶ αἰκίαις καὶ τοῖς ὁμοίοις τῶν παραδειγματισμῶν.

     Ἰδίως δὲ καὶ τῶν τὸ σχῆμα περιεχόντων τόπων οἱ μὲν ἡλίου καὶ οἱ τοῦ Ἄρεως πρὸς τὰς μανίας μάλιστα συνεργοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Ἑρμοῦ πρὸς τὰς ἐπιληψίας, οἱ δὲ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης πρὸς τὰς θεοφορίας καὶ ἐξαγορείας, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ σελήνης πρὸς τὰς τῶν ὑγρῶν ὀχλήσεις καὶ τὰς δαιμονιοπληξίας.

     Ἡ μὲν οὖν περὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν τῆς ψυχῆς καθ’ ὅλας τὰς φύσεις νοσηματικὴ παραλλαγὴ σχεδὸν ἔν τε τοῖς τοιούτοις ἐστὶν εἴδεσι καὶ διὰ τῶν τοιούτων ἀποτελεῖται σχηματισμῶν, ἡ δὲ τῶν περὶ τὸ παθητικὸν κατὰ τοῦτο πάλιν τὸ ἐξαίρετον θεωρουμένη καταφαίνεται μάλιστα περὶ τὰς κατ’ αὐτὸ τὸ γένος τοῦ ἄρρενος καὶ θήλεως ὑπερβολὰς καὶ ἐλλείψεις τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν, διαλαμβάνεται δὲ ἐπισκεπτικῶς κατὰ τὸν ὅμοιον τῷ προκειμένῳ τρόπον, τοῦ ἡλίου μέντοι μετὰ τῆς σελήνης ἀντὶ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ παραλαμβανομένου καὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἄρεως σὺν τῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης πρὸς αὐτοὺς συνοικειώσεως· τούτων γὰρ οὕτως ὑπ’ ὄψιν πιπτόντων,

     Ἐὰν μὲν μόνα τὰ φῶτα ἐν ἀρσενικοῖς ᾖ ζῳδίοις, οἱ μὲν ἄνδρες ὑπερβάλλουσι τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες τοῦ παρὰ φύσιν πρὸς τὸ ἔπανδρον ἁπλῶς τῆς ψυχῆς, καὶ δραστικώτερον, ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἤτοι ὁπότερος ἢ καὶ ἀμφότεροι ἠρρενωμένοι ὦσιν, οἱ μὲν ἄνδρες πρὸς τὰς κατὰ φύσιν συνουσίας γίνονται καταφερεῖς καὶ μοιχικοὶ καὶ ἀκόρεστοι καὶ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ πρόχειροι πρός τε τὰ αἰσχρὰ καὶ τὰ παράνομα τῶν ἀφροδισίων, αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες πρὸς τὰς παρὰ φύσιν ὁμιλίας λάγνοι καὶ ῥιψόφθαλμοι καὶ αἱ καλούμεναι τριβάδες· διατιθέασι γὰρ θηλείας ἀνδρῶν ἔργα ἐπιτελούσας, κἂν μὲν μόνος ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἠρρενωμένος ᾖ, λάθρᾳ καὶ οὐκ ἀναφανδόν, ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως, ἄντικρυς, ὥστε ἐνίοτε καὶ νομίμας ὥσπερ γυναῖκας τὰς διατιθεμένας ἀναδεικνύειν.

     Τὸ δὲ ἐναντίον τῶν φώτων κατὰ τὸν ἐκκείμενον σχηματισμὸν ἐν θηλυκοῖς ζῳδίοις ὑπαρχόντων μόνον αἱ μὲν γυναῖκες ὑπερβάλλουσι τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν, οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες τοῦ παρὰ φύσιν πρὸς τὸ εὔθρυπτον καὶ τεθηλυσμένον τῆς ψυχῆς. Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ᾖ τεθηλυσμένος, αἱ μὲν γυναῖκες καταφερεῖς τε καὶ μοιχάδες καὶ λάγνοι γίνονται πρὸς τὸ διατίθεσθαι κατὰ φύσιν ἐν παντί τε καιρῷ καὶ ὑπὸ παντὸς οὑτινοσοῦν, ὡς μηδενὸς ἁπλῶς, ἐάν τε αἰσχρὸν ᾖ ἐάν τε παράνομον, ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν ἀφροδισίων, οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες μαλακοί τε καὶ σαθροὶ πρὸς τὰς παρὰ φύσιν συνουσίας καὶ γυναικῶν ἔργα διατιθέμενοι παθητικῶς, ἀποκρύφως μέντοι καὶ λεληθότως. Ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ἄρεως ᾖ τεθηλυσμένος, ἄντικρυς καὶ μετὰ παρρησίας ἀναισχυντοῦσι τὰ προκείμενα καθ’ ἑκάτερον εἶδος ἀποτελοῦντες τὸ πορνικὸν καὶ πολύκοινον καὶ πολύψογον καὶ πάναισχρον σχῆμα περιβαλλόμενοι μέχρι τῆς κατὰ τὴν λοιδορίαν καὶ τὴν τῆς χρήσεως ὕβριν σημειώσεως.

     Συμβάλλονται δὲ καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀνατολικοὶ καὶ ἑῷοι σχηματισμοί, τοῦ τε τοῦ Ἄρεως καὶ τοῦ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης πρός τε τὸ ἐπανδρότερον καὶ εὐδιαβοητότερον, οἱ δὲ δυτικοὶ καὶ ἑσπέριοι πρός τε τὸ θηλυκώτερον καὶ τὸ κατασταλτικώτερον· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ὁ μὲν τοῦ Κρόνου συμπροσγενόμενος ἐπὶ τὸ ἀσελγέστερον καὶ ἀκαθαρτότερον ἢ καὶ ἐπονειδιστότερον ἑκάστῳ τῶν ἐκκειμένων πέφυκε συνεργεῖν, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Διὸς πρὸς τὸ εὐσχημονέστερον καὶ φυλακτικώτερον καὶ αἰδημονέστερον, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ πρός τε τὸ περιβοητότερον καὶ τὸ τῶν παθῶν εὐκινητότερον καὶ πολυτροπώτερον καὶ εὖ προσκοπώτερον.

15. Of Diseases of the Soul

     Since the account of the principal diseases of the soul, in a sense, follows upon that of the soul’s characteristics, it is in general needful to note and observe the positions of Mercury and the moon relative to each other, to the angles, and to the planets whose nature it is to do injury; for if, while they themselves are unrelated to each other, or to the eastern horizon, they are overcome, or surrounded, or held in opposition by unfamiliar stars in injurious aspect, they cause the incidence of various diseases which affect the soul’s character. Their interpretation again is to be calculated from the previously described qualities of the planets which are familiar to the places ¹⁵² in the sky.

     Indeed, most of the more moderate diseases have, in a way, already been distinguished in what has been said about the character of the soul, and their increase can be discerned from the excess of injurious influences; for one might now with propriety call “diseases” those extremes of character which either fall short of or exceed the mean. Those affections, however, which are utterly disproportionate and as it were pathological, which relate to the whole nature, and which concern both the intelligent part of the soul and its passive part, are, in brief, to be discerned as follows. In most cases those are epileptic ¹⁵³ in whose genitures the moon and Mercury are, as we said above, unrelated to each other or to the eastern horizon, while Saturn by day or Mars by night is angular and in the aspect previously described ¹⁵⁴. They are violently insane when, again under the same conditions, Saturn by night and Mars by day rules the position, particularly in Cancer, Virgo, or Pisces. They are afflicted by demons ¹⁵⁵ and have water on the brain when the maleficent planets are in this position and control the moon in phase, Saturn when she is at conjunction, Mars when she is full, and particularly in Sagittarius and Pisces. When. the maleficent planets are by themselves and rule the configuration in the manner stated, the diseases of the rational part of the soul which we have mentioned as being caused by them are, to be sure, incurable, but latent and obscure.

     But if the beneficent planets Jupiter and Venus have some familiarity to them when they are themselves in the western parts and the beneficent planets are angular ¹⁵⁶ in the east, they make the diseases curable, but noticeable; if it be Jupiter, curable by medical treatments, a diet, or drugs; if Venus, by oracles and the aid of the gods. When the maleficent planets themselves are angular in the east and the beneficent planets are setting, the diseases which they cause are both incurable, the subject of talk, and conspicuous; in epilepsy they involve the victims in continuous attacks, notoriety, and deadly peril; in madness and seizures, they cause instability, alienation of friends, tearing off clothes, abusive language, and the like; in demonic seizures, or water on the brain, possession, confession, torments, and similar manifestations.

     In detail, of the places that possess the configuration, those of the sun and Mars aid in causing madness, those of Jupiter and Mercury, epilepsy; those of Venus, divine possession and public confession; and those of Saturn and the moon, gatherings of water and demonic seizures.

     The morbid perversion of the active part of the soul in its general nature, therefore, is produced in some such forms as these and is produced by these configurations of the planets. The corresponding perversion of the passive portion, as in the former instance viewed in its extreme cases, is most apparent in excesses and deficiencies in matters of sex, male and female, as compared with what is natural, and in inquiry is apprehended in the same fashion as before, though the sun is taken, together with the moon, instead of Mercury, and the relation to them of Mars, together with Venus, is observed.

     For when these thus fall under observation, if the luminaries are unattended in masculine signs, males exceed in the natural, and females exceed in the unnatural quality, so as merely to increase the virility and activity of the soul. But if likewise Mars or Venus as well, either one or both of them, is made masculine ¹⁵⁷, the males become addicted to natural sexual intercourse, and are adulterous, insatiate, and ready on every occasion for base and lawless acts of sexual passion, while the females are lustful for unnatural congresses, east inviting glances of the eye, and are what we call tribades ¹⁵⁸; for they deal with females and perform the functions of males. If Venus alone is constituted in a masculine manner, they do these things secretly and not openly. But if Mars likewise is so constituted, without reserve, so that sometimes they even designate the women with whom they are on such terms as their lawful “wives”.

     But on the other hand, when the luminaries in the aforesaid configuration are unattended in feminine signs, the females exceed in the natural, and the males in unnatural practice, with the result that their souls become soft and effeminate. If Venus too is made feminine, the women become depraved, adulterous, and lustful, with the result that they may be dealt with in the natural manner on any occasion and by any one soever, and so that they refuse absolutely no sexual act, though it be base or unlawful. The men, on the contrary, become effeminate and unsound with respect to unnatural congresses and the functions of women, and are dealt with as pathics, though privately and secretly. But if Mars also is constituted in a feminine manner, their shamelessness is outright and frank and they perform the aforesaid acts of either kind, assuming the guise of common bawds who submit to general abuse and to every baseness until they are stamped with the reproach and insult that attend such usages.

     And the rising and morning positions of both Mars and Venus have a contributory effect, to make them more virile and notorious, while setting and evening positions increase femininity and sedateness. Similarly, if Saturn is present, his influence joins with each of the foregoing to produce more licentiousness, impurity, and disgrace, while Jupiter aids in the direction of greater decorum, restraint, and modesty, and Mercury tends to increase notoriety, instability of the emotions, versatility, and foresight.