Star Media Title: Carmen Astrologicum Author: Dorotheus of Sidon Translator : David Pingree Publisher: Ascella, Spica --- Contents --- Foreword by Nicholas Campion - Dorotheus of Sidon: His Life and Significance i --- Book I --- Judgements concerning nativities: on the upbringing and condition of the [Native] . Ch.1 The Knowledge of the seven in longitude and latitude, and the triplicities of the signs 2 Ch.2 The exaltation of the planets 3 Ch.3 Judgement about the case of the native or his difficulty to his mother 3 Ch.4 Judgement concerning the matter of the upbringing of the native 4 Ch.5 On the superiority of the places 5 Ch.6 The power of the seven planets 5 Ch.7 The upbringing of natives, and for whom there will be an upbringing or for whom an... 6 Ch.8 Knowledge of the masculine and feminine "hours" of the nativity 8 Ch.9 The matter of bringing up again 9 Ch.10 Knowledge of what indicates whether the native and his mother are slaves or free... 9 Ch.11 The knowledge of how many will own the native if he is a slave 12 Ch.12 Consideration concerning the upbringing of the native, his condition 13 Ch.13 Knowledge of the lot of the father 17 Ch.14 The lot of the mother 17 Ch.15 Knowledge of the death of the parents of the native,... 19 Ch.16 Knowledge of whether the native will inherit his parent's property or not 21 Ch.17 Knowledge of how many will be born to the mother of the native 22 Ch.18 On the matter of brothers 23 Ch.19 The lot of brothers 23 Ch.20 Knowledge of the love of the brothers 24 Ch.21 Knowledge of the number of brothers and sisters 24 Ch.22 Knowledge of the matter of the fortune of the native and [his] property and his illness 28 Ch.23 Knowledge of the division of the planets with regard to good and evil 29 Ch.24 Judgements concerning the matter of fortune and property in nativities 30 Ch.25 On the knowledge of the excellence of fortune 37 Ch.26 The magnitude of fortune and property 38 Ch.27 The decline of status and disaster 41 Ch.28 Knowledge of masculine and feminine signs, eastern and western 44 --- Book II --- Judgements concerning nativities: on marriage and children . Ch.1 Marriage 47 Ch.2 Knowledge of the lot of wedding 49 Ch.3 Knowledge of the lot [in] the nativity of a woman 49 Ch.4 The lot of marriage 51 Ch.5 Knowledge of how many wives he will marry 54 Ch.6 Knowledge of the lot of wedding by day and by night 56 Ch.7 Knowledge of sodomy 57 Ch.8 Exposition of the matter of children 58 Ch.9 Knowledge of the number of children 59 Ch.10 Knowledge of lot of children 60 Ch.11 Lot of transit with respect ot children 61 Ch.12 Knowledge of females and males 62 Ch.13 Knowledge of whether females or males are more numerous 63 Ch.14 Aspect of trines, if one of the planets aspects another from trine 64 Ch.15 Quartile[aspect] 66 Ch.16 On the planets' aspect from opposition 70 Ch.17 Aspect of the planets from sextile 73 Ch.18 If Saturn is with one of the seven 73 Ch.19 If Jupiter is with one of the seven 74 Ch.20 Knowledge of the places of the planets 77 Ch.21 Arrival of the Moon in the places 77 Ch.22 Arrival of the Sun in the places 78 Ch.23 Arrival of Saturn in the places 78 Ch.24 Arrival of Jupiter in the places 79 Ch.25 Arrival of Mars in the places 81 Ch.26 Arrival of Venus in the places 82 Ch.27 Arrival of Mercury in the places 84 Ch.28 Arrival of Saturn in another's house 85 Ch.29 Arrival of Jupiter in another's house 86 Ch.30 Arrival of Mars in another's house 86 Ch.31 Arrival of Venus in another's house 87 Ch.32 Arrival of Mercury in another's house 87 Ch.33 Arrival of the planets, one of them in the house of another 88 --- Book III --- Ch.1 Governors and indicators of the years of life 91 Ch.2 The haylaj 98 --- Book IV --- Ch.1 The transfer of years 104 --- Book V --- Interrogations . Ch.1 Introduction 123 Ch.2 Judgement according to the crooked and the straight 124 Ch.3 Judgement according to the tropical [signs] 124 Ch.4 Judgement according to the twin [signs] 125 Ch.5 The corruption of the Moon 125 Ch.6 One who wishes to build a building 129 Ch.7 If you wish to demolish a building 129 Ch.8 To hire something or let it out for rent 129 Ch.9 Buying and selling 130 Ch.10 The buying of land 131 Ch.11 The buying of slaves 131 Ch.12 The buying of animals 132 Ch.13 If you want to free a slave 133 Ch.14 If you want to ask from a ruler or from a man for a request or a gift or other than this... 134 Ch.15 If you want to write to a man or you want to to teach a man a science or writing 134 Ch.16 Marriage and matrimony 135 Ch.17 The courtship of a woman, and what occurs between a wife and her husband when she... 138 Ch.18 A pregnant woman, if her child will die in her belly 140 Ch.19 Partnership 140 Ch.20 Debt and the payment for it 142 Ch.21 The journey 142 Ch.22 Departure from a journey 143 Ch.23 Buying a ship or building it 146 Ch.24 Commencing to build a ship 146 Ch.25 Commencing to row the ship in the water 147 Ch.26 Concerning books, messages or letters 151 Ch.27 Bondage and chains 152 Ch.28 Judgement about what may not be afterwards of a matter which one hopes for, or... 155 Ch.29 Query about the sick 155 Ch.30 The commencement of all things 156 Ch.31 Concerning the condition of a sick man 157 Ch.32 Concerning whether the property of the native will increase or decrease 157 Ch.33 Clarification of the matter of two adversaries, if they argue and plead before a judge... 158 Ch.34 Concerning whether a man will depart from his land 162 Ch.35 The matter of a theft that has been committed or something that has been lost 162 Ch.36 The runaway 174 Ch.37 The treatment of spirits 181 Ch.38 Someone wishes to retain [his food] or drink a medicine for diarrhoea, and the rest of... 182 Ch.39 Someone wishes to cut something from his body with a knife or scalpel, or to bleed a ... 182 Ch.40 If there is a infection in the eye or a covering over it or something of what is treated... 183 Ch.41 Illness as Qitrinus[Cedrenus] the Sadwali says 183 Ch.42 The will 190 Ch.43 On clarifying the phases of the Moon and the head of the dragon and its tail 191 INDEX 192 Home Copyright (c) Star Media 1999-2005 All Rights Reserved. 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