# Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos) 4-33

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Apotelesmatica (= Tetrabiblos), ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Δ', ζ΄. Περὶ φίλων καὶ ἐχθρῶν.. Ancient Greek.

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ἐπεῖ δὲ φιλίας καὶ ἔχθρας εἴδη τρία γὰρ διὰ προαίρεσιν οὕτως ἔχουσι πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἢ διὰ χρείαν ἢ διὰ ἡδονὴν καὶ λύπην· ὅταν μὲν πάντες ἢ οἱ πλείους τῶν προειρημένων τόπων οἰκειωθῶσι πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἐκ πάντων ἡ φιλία συνάγεται τῶν εἰδῶν, ὥσπερ, ὅταν ἀνοικείως, ἡ ἔχθρα, ὅταν δὲ οἱ τῶν φώτων μόνον, διὰ προαίρεσιν, ἥτις ἐστὶ φιλία καὶ βελτίστη καὶ ἀσφαλεστάτη καὶ ἔχθρα χειρίστη καὶ ἄπιστος· ὁμοίως δέ, ὅταν μὲν οἶ τῶν κλήρων τῆς τύχης, διὰ χρείαν, ὅταν δὲ οἱ τῶν ὡροσκόπων, δι’ ἡδονὰς ἢ λύπας.

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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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