THE CENTILOQUY, OR HUNDRED APHORISMS OF CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY 1; OTHERWISE CALLED, THE FRUIT OF HIS FOUR BOOKS CENTILOQUYまたはクラウディウスプトレマイオス1の百警句;さもなければ呼ばれて、彼のフォアの成果は、予約します
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.
V. A skilful person, acquainted with the nature of the stars, is enabled to avert many of their effects, and to prepare himself for those effects before they arrive.
VI. It is advantageous to make choice of days and hours at a time well constituted by the nativity. Should the time be adverse, the choice will in no respect avail, however favourable an issue it may chance to promise.
VII. The mingled influences of the stars can be understood by no one who has not previously acquired knowledge of the combinations and varieties existing in nature.