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Title: Apotelesmatics Book I, II
Author: Hephaistio of Thebes
Book I : Translator: Robert Schmidt ...Editor: Robert Hand
Book II : Translated and Annotated by Robert Schmidt
Publisher: The Golden Hind Press


--- Contents Book I---
Introduction to Hephaistio of Thebes by Robert Hand iii
Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt viii
The Apotelesmatics of Hephaistio of Thebes 1
First Universal Book
Preface
1
1. Concerning the Name and the Power of the Twelfth-parts 3
2. Concerning the Power of the Seven Wandering Stars 25
3. Concerning the Power of the Fixed Stars 26
4. Concerning the Formations Farther North than the Zodiac 28
5. Concerning the Formations Farther South than the Zodiac 28
6. Concerning Trigons According to Dorotheus 30
7. The Places in Which the Stars Rejoice 30
8. Concerning Exaltations 30
9. Concerning Sections That Command and Those That Obey 31
10. Concerning Sections of Equal Power and Those Seeing 31
11. Concerning Unconnected Sections 31
12. Concerning the Difference of the Places 32
13. Concerning Rulership and Co-rulership 32
14. Concerning Application and Separation 33
15. Concerning Enclosure 33
16. Concerning the Hurling of Rays 34
17. Concerning Spear-bearing 35
18. Concerning the Twelfth-parts That Are According to Degrees 35
19. Concerning One's Own Face and Chariots and Thrones 36
20. Concerning Universal Investigations and Effects 37
21. Effects of the Eclipses and Comets That Arise 44
22. Concerning the Signs During the Eclipse 51
23. Concerning the Indications of the Arising of the Dog Star and of the Stars Accompanying It 53
24. Concerning the Colors in Eclipses and Comets 58
25. Concerning the Significance of Meteorological Phenomena 61
Appendix I
Translation Conventions
64

--- Book II ---
Translator's Preface v
Book II of Hephaistio's Apotelesmatics
Prooemium
1
1. Concerning Conception and Birth 1
2. Concerning the Degree Marking the Hour 8
3. Concerning the Dividing Up and Ordering of Natal Theory 14
4. Concerning Parents 16
5. On the Predeceasing of the Parents 18
6. Concerning Siblings 18
7. Concerning Males and Females 20
8. Concerning Twins 20
9. Concerning Monsters 20
10. Concerning Those Who Go Unnourished 20
11. Concerning the Length of Life According to the Truth and Ptolemy 28
12. Concerning Bodily Form and Mixture 46
13. Concerning Bodily Injuries and Ailments 47
14. Concerning the Lot of Injury 51
15. Concerning Quality of Soul 52
16. Concerning Ailments of the Soul 52
17. Concerning Fortune Pertaining to Acquisition 53
18. Concerning Fortune Pertaining to Rank 53
19. Concerning the Quality of Action 66
20. Concerning Slaves 68
21. Concerning Marriage and Sexual Union 68
22. Concerning Children 70
23. Concerning Friends and Enemies 71
24. Concerning Travel Abroad 73
25. Concerning the Quality of Death 75
26. Concerning the Division of the Times 76
27. Concerning the Year 80
28. Concerning the Month and Day 82
29. Divisions of 10 years and 9 months 83
30. Concerning the Time-Lordship of Kronos 85
31. Concerning the Time-Lordship of Zeus 88
32. Concerning the Time-Lordship of Ares 91
33. Concerning the Time-Lordship of the Sun 94
34. Concerning the Time-Lordship of Aphrodite 97
35. Concerning the Time-Lordship of Hermes 100
36. Concerning the Time-Lordship of the Moon 102


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