{"kind":"section","lang":"grc","language":"Ancient Greek","title":"Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 20","citation":"Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 20","ref":"20","level":null,"urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007:20","url":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/20","api":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/api/v1/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/20","markdown":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/20.md","author":{"name":"Claudius Ptolemaeus","url":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus"},"work":{"title":"Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos)","url":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007"},"verse":false,"words":133,"text":"πολλὴν ἀπορίαν δύναται παρέχειν τοῖς ἐπὶ τῶν τοιούτων οἰομένοις ἀπὸ μόνης τῆς τῶν μετεώρων κινήσεως πάντα καὶ τὰ μὴ τέλεον ἐπ’ αὐτῇ δύνασθαι διαγινώσκειν. τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων προσῆκον ἂν εἴη μήτε ἐπειδὴ διαμαρτάνεσθαί ποτε τὴν τοιαύτην πρόγνωσιν ἐνδέχεται, καὶ τὸ πᾶν αὐτῆς ἀναι- ρεῖν, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τὴν κυβερνητικὴν διὰ τὸ πολλάκις πταίειν ἀποδοκιμάζομεν, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἐν μεγάλοις οὕτως καὶ θείοις ἐπαγγέλμασιν ἀσπάζεσθαι καὶ ἀγαπητὸν ἡγεῖσθαι τὸ δυνατόν, μήτ’ αὖ πάλιν πάντα ἡμῖν αἰτεῖν παρ’ αὐ- τῆς, ἀλλὰ ἀνθρωπίνως καὶ ἐστοχασμένως συμφιλοκαλεῖν καὶ ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἦν ἐπ’ αὐτῇ τὸ πᾶν ἐφοδιάζειν καὶ ὥσπερ τοῖς ἰατροῖς ὅταν ἐπιζητῶσί τινα καὶ περὶ αὐτῆς τῆς νόσου καὶ περὶ τῆς τοῦ κάμνοντος ἰδιοτροπίας, οὐ μεμψόμεθα λέγοντες, οὕτως καὶ ἐνταῦθα τὰ γένη καὶ τὰς χώρας καὶ τὰς τροφὰς ἢ καί τινα τῶν ἤδη συμβεβηκότων μὴ ἀγανακτεῖν ὑποτιθεμένους.","prev":{"citation":"Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 19","label":"ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΣΥΡΟΝ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Α΄, β΄. Ὅτι καταληπτὴ ἡ δι’ ἀστρονομίας γνῶσις καὶ μέχρι τίνος.","url":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/19","api":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/api/v1/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/19"},"next":{"citation":"Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 1-3","label":"ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΣΥΡΟΝ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Α΄, γ’. Ὅτι καὶ ὠφέλιμος.","url":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/1-3","api":"https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/api/v1/library/greek/claudius-ptolemaeus/apotelesmatica-tetrabiblos/1-3"},"credit":{"text":"Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), ed. Franz Johannes Boll, Emilie Boer. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","source":"https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0363.tlg007.local001/","quality":"proofread"}}