# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 4-30

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Δ', γ΄. Περὶ τύχης. Ancient Greek.

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ἐὰν δὲ τὰ μὲν φῶτα μὴ ἐπίκεντρα, τῶν δὲ δορυφορούντων ἀστέρων οἱ πλεῖστοι ἤτοι ἐπίκεντροι ὦσιν ἢ συσχηματίζωνται τοῖς κέντροις, ἐν ἀξιώμασι μὲν ἐπιφανεστέροις οὐ γενήσονται, ἐν προαγωγαῖς δὲ πολιτικαῖς καὶ μετριότητι περὶ τὰς κατὰ τὸν βίον προλήψεις· μηδὲ τῶν δορυφορούντων μέντοι τοῖς κέντροις συνοικειωθέντων ἀνεπίφαντοι ταῖς πράξεσι καὶ ἀπρόκοποι καθίστανται, τέλεον δὲ ταπεινοὶ καὶ κακοδαίμονες γίνονται ταῖς τύχαις, ὅταν μηδέτερον τῶν φώτων μήτε κεκεντρωμένον μήτ’ ἐν ἀρρενικῷ ζῳδίῳ τυγχάνῃ μήτε δορυφορῆται ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγαθοποιῶν.

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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/.