# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 1-18-2

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), 1 to 2. Ancient Greek.

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CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007:1-18-2

Συνοικειοῦνται δὲ καὶ οἱ πλανῆται τοῖς τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ μέρεσι κατά τε τοὺς καλουμένους οἴκους καὶ τρίγωνα καὶ ὑψώματα καὶ ὅρια καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. καὶ τὸ μὲν τῶν οἴκων τοιαύτην ἔχει φύσιν· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τῶν ιβ΄ ζῳδίων τὰ βορειότατα καὶ συνεγγίζοντα μᾶλλον τῶν ἄλλων τοῦ κατὰ κορυφὴν ἡμῶν τόπου θερμασίας τε καὶ ἀλέας διὰ τοῦτο περιποιητικά τυγχάνοντα ὅ τε Καρκίνος καὶ ὁ Λέων ἐστί, τὰ δύο ταῦτα τοῖς μεγίστοις καὶ κυριωτάτοις, τουτέστι τοῖς δύο φωσὶν ἀπένειμαν οἴκους,

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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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0363.tlg007.local001/.