# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 1-6

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΣΥΡΟΝ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Α΄, ς΄. Περὶ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν.. Ancient Greek.

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Πάλιν ἐπειδὴ τὰ πρῶτα γένη τῶν φύσεων δύο ἐστί τό τε ἄρρεν καὶ τὸ. θῆλυ, τῶν δὲ προκειμένων δυνάμεων ἡ τῆς ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας μάλιστα θηλυκὴ τυγχάνει, πλεῖον γὰρ ἐγγίνεται καθόλου τοῦτο τὸ μέρος πᾶσι τοῖς θήλεσι, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα μᾶλλον τοῖς ἄρρεσιν, εἰκότως τὴν μὲν σελήνην καὶ τὸν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἀστέρα θηλυκοὺς ἡμῖν παραδεδώκασι, διὰ τὸ πλεῖον ἔχειν ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ, τὸν δὲ ἥλιον καὶ τὸν τοῦ Κρόνου καὶ τὸν τοῦ Διὸς καὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἄρεως ἀρρενικούς, τὸν δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ κοινὸν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν γενῶν, καθὸ ἐξ ἴσου καὶ τῆς ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας καὶ τῆς ξηρᾶς ἐστι ποιητικός.

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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.
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