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Ptolemy · J. M. Ashmand
Translated by J. M. Ashmand, 1822. The Centiloquy (Καρπός, “The Fruit of his Four Books”), attributed to Ptolemy, comprises one hundred astrological aphorisms, long studied alongside the Tetrabiblos. THE CENTILOQUY, OR HUNDRED APHORISMS OF CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY; OTHERWISE CALLED, THE FRUIT OF HIS FOUR BOOKS I. Judgment must be regulated by thyself, as well as by the science; for it is not possible that particular forms of events should be declared by any person, however scientific; since the understanding conceives only a certain general idea of some sensible event, and not its particular form. It is, therefore, necessary for him who practices herein to adopt inference. They only who are inspired by the deity can predict particulars. II. When an enquirer shall make mature search into an expected event, there will be found no material difference between the event itself and his idea of it. …
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