# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 10-11

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), BIBAION Γ΄, ιε΄. Περὶ παθῶν ψυχικῶν.. Ancient Greek.

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τὸ δὲ ἐναντίον τῶν φώτων κατὰ τὸν ἐκ· κείμενον σχηματισμὸν ἐν θηλυκοῖς ζῳδίος ὑπαρχόντων μόνον αἱ μὲν γυναῖκες ὑπερβάλλουσι τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν, οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες τοῦ παρὰ φύσιν πρὸς τὸ εὔθρυπτον καὶ τε- θηλυσμένον τῆς ψυχῆς. ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ὁ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ᾗ τεθηλυσμένος, αἱ μὲν γυναῖκες καταφερεῖς τε καὶ μοι· χάδες καὶ λάγνοι γίνονται πρὸς τὸ διατίθεσθαι κατὰ φύσιν ἐν παντί τε καιρῷ καὶ ὑπὸ παντὸς οὑτινοσοῦν, ὡς μηδενὸς ἁπλῶς, ἐάν τε αἰσχρὸν ᾗ ἐάν τε παράνομον, ἀππιπτόντων ἔχεσθαι τῶν ἀφροδισίων, οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες μαλακοί τε καὶ σαθροὶ πρὸς τὰς παρὰ φύσιν συνουσίας καὶ γυναικῶν ἔργα διατιθέμενοι παθητικῶς, ἀποκρύφως μέντοι καὶ λεληθότως.

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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/.