# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 2-27

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Β΄, ια΄. Περὶ τῆς τοῦ ἔτους νεομηνίας.. Ancient Greek.

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CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0363.tlg007:2-27

τίνα δ’ ἄν τις ἀρχὴν ὑποστήσαιτο, ἐν κύκλῳ μὲν αὐτὸ μόνον ἁπλῶς οὔδ’ ἂν ἐπινοήσειεν, ἐν δὲ τῷ διὰ μέσων τῶν ζῳδίων μόνας ἂν εἰκότως ἀρχὰς λάβοι τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἰσημερινοῦ καὶ τῶν τροπικῶν ἀφοριζόμενα σημεῖα, τουτέστι τά τε δύο ἰσημερινὰ καὶ τὰ δύο τροπικά. ἐνταῦθα μέντοι τις ἀπορήσειεν ἂν ἤδη, τίνι τῶν τεσσάρων ὡς προηγουμένου χρήσαιτ᾿ ἄν· κατὰ μὲν οὖν τὴν ἁπλῆν καὶ κυκλικὴν φύσιν οὐδὲν αὐτῶν ἐστιν ὡς ἐπὶ μιᾶς ἀρχῆς προηγούμενον·

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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/.