| List of Tables |
i |
| Foreword by Robert Hand |
ii |
| Translator's Preface to Paulus and Olympiodorus |
iv |
| ........Historical Background |
v |
| ........Paulus Alexandrinus and the Introduction |
vi |
| ........The Scholia |
vi |
| ........The Olympiodorus Commentary on Paulus |
vii |
| ........Format of This Translation |
vii |
| ........Texts Used for This Translation |
vii |
| ........Translation Conventions |
viii |
| ........Acknowledgments |
viii |
| ........Zoidion, Horoskopos, and Pivot |
ix |
| Introductory Matters |
1 |
| 1. Introduction to the Second Edition |
1 |
| 2. Concerning the Twelve Zoidia |
1 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 2 |
5 |
3. Concerning the Bounds Which the Five Wandering Stars Are Allotted in the Twelve Zoidia
......[On Account of Rejoicing in These Degrees Just as If They Found Themselfes in Their Own Zoidia] |
6 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 3 |
7 |
| 4. Concerning the Faces in the Twelve Zoidia which the Steven Stars hold according to Decans |
9 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 4 |
10 |
| 5. Concerning which of the Seven Stars are Masters of the Monomoiria, by Zoidion |
12 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 5 |
13 |
| 6. Concerning the Sect of the Two Lights |
14 |
| 7. Concerning the Quadrants |
15 |
| 8. Concerning the Zoidia which See One another |
16 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 8 |
16 |
| 9. Concerning Those which Command and Obey |
17 |
| 10. Concerning the Trigons, Hexagons, Squares and Diameters by Figure |
17 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 10 |
18 |
| 11. Concerning the Zoidia Unconnected to One another |
19 |
| 12. Concerning the [Zoidia] Averse and Sympathetic to One Another |
19 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 12 |
20 |
| 13. Concerning the Like-engirding and Equally-rising Twelfth-parts which Make Figures |
20 |
| 14. Concerning the Phases which the Five Stars make to the Sun |
20 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 14 |
22 |
| 15. Concerning Stations |
29 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 15 |
30 |
| 16. Concerning the Figures which the Moon Makes to the Sun |
31 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 16 |
33 |
| 17. Concerning the Separation and Application which the Moon Makes to the Wandering Stars |
33 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 17 |
34 |
| 18. Concerning Foreknowledge of Winds |
35 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 18 |
35 |
| 19. Concerning Knowing how Many Days of the Gods There Are |
35 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 19 |
36 |
| 20. Concerning Knowing to which of the Gods Each Day Belongs |
36 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 20 |
37 |
| 21. Concerning the [Star] Presiding and the One Managing |
39 |
| 22. Concerning Dodekatemoria (Twelfth-parts) |
40 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 22 |
41 |
| 23. Concerning the Seven Lots in the Panaretus |
41 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 23 |
44 |
| 24. Concerning the Tabular Exposition of the Twelve Places |
44 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 24 |
51 |
| 25. Concerning Children |
54 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 25 |
55 |
| 26. Concerning What One Does |
57 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 26 |
57 |
| 27. Concerning the Declines |
58 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 27 |
60 |
| 28. Concerning the Motion of the Sun and Learning in what Zoidion and Roughly what Degree It Is |
60 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 28 |
61 |
| 29. Concerning How One Must Calculate the Horoskopos |
62 |
| 30. Concerning the Midheaven |
63 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 30 |
63 |
| 31. Concerning Year, Month and Day |
65 |
| 32. Concerning the Monomoiria by Trigon |
66 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 32 |
67 |
| 33. Concerning the Indispensable Degree of the Horoskopos through Natural Methods |
68 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 33 |
69 |
| 34. Concerning Crises |
70 |
| ......Scholia for Chapter 34 |
72 |
| 35. Concerning the Bond of the Moon |
73 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 35 |
74 |
| 36. Concerning Rulership |
74 |
| ......Scholion for Chapter 36 |
76 |
| 37. The Nativity of the Cosmos |
76 |
| Heliodorus, as it is Said, in the Commentary on Paulus Alexandrinus |
78 |
| 1. Concerning the Quality of the Figures and into What They are Collected |
78 |
| ......Concerning Figures |
78 |
| 2. What is Application and Separation |
79 |
| 3. Concerning the Quality of the 4 Figures |
80 |
| 4. Concerning Unconnected and Unfigured [Zoidia] |
81 |
| 5. Concerning Equally-ascending and Like-engirding [Zoidia] |
82 |
| 6. Concerning Those on the Right and Left |
83 |
| 7. Concerning Those Ascending and Declining |
84 |
| 8. Concerning Appearances and Settings |
84 |
| 9. Concerning When a Morning Rising is Said [to Occur] and When a Station, Acronycal, Acceleration and also Morning and Evening Setting |
85 |
| 10. Concerning Risings, Disappearances, Additions, Subtractions and Wanderings |
88 |
| 11. Concerning Conjoining Stars |
88 |
| 12. Concerning Stations |
89 |
| 13. Concerning Whether the Father or Son is Hurt |
90 |
| 14. Concerning How the Stations Differ |
91 |
| 15. Concerning the Figures of the Moon |
92 |
| 16. Concerning the Figures of the Moon with Respect to the Stars |
94 |
| 17. Concerning What Kind of Wind Will Blow |
96 |
| 18. Concerning Lord of the Day, Both the One Presiding and the One Managing |
97 |
| ......Concerning Managing |
98 |
| 19. Concerning the Dodekatemoria of the 7Stars |
99 |
| 20. Concerning the Pivots |
101 |
| 21. Concerning Lot[s] and Their Dodekatemoria |
101 |
| 22. Concerning the Names of the Seven Lots and What It Means |
103 |
| ......These Diurnal Lots; For a Nocturnal Nativity the Reverse |
106 |
| ......The Lots Otherwise, Better |
107 |
| ......Concerning All the Lots of the Ancients |
109 |
| Beginning of the Second Section |
111 |
| 23. Concerning the 12 Places, How They are Called and What it Means |
111 |
| ......Concerning the Separation of the Twelve Places |
118 |
| 24. Concerning Children |
121 |
| 25. Concerning What One Does |
123 |
| 26. Concerning the Declines |
124 |
| 27. On Knowing What Degree the Sun and the Horoskopos [Are] |
126 |
| 28. Concerning the Degree and through How Much Time Each Zoidion is Brought Up |
128 |
| 29. Concerning Year, Month and Day |
130 |
| 30. Concerning a Year |
132 |
| 31. Concerning a Month |
133 |
| 32. Concerning a Day |
133 |
| 33. Concerning an Hour |
134 |
| 34. Concerning the Monomoiria by Trigon |
134 |
| ......Translator's Addendum to this Chapter |
138 |
| ......Criteria for Determining Monomoiriai by Trigon |
139 |
| 35. Concerning the Indispensable Degree of the Horoskopos |
140 |
| 36. Concerning the Given Hour |
144 |
| 37. Concerning the Time of Conception |
145 |
| 38. Concerning Crises |
145 |
| 39. Concerning the Bond of the Moon |
150 |
| 40. Concerning Ruler and Times of Life |
152 |
| Appendix I:Categories of Lots |
155 |
| ......Duplicate Lots(same name, different planets) |
161 |
| Appendix II:The Calendar Used by Paulus and Olympiodorus |
163 |
| Appendix III:Charts Used by Paulus and Olympiodorus |
164 |
| Bibliography |
169 |
| Index |
171 |
