Lucian, De astrologia, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 6

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[6] οἱ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ἐμήσαντο πολλὸν μέζω τουτέων· ἐκ γὰρ δὴ τοῦ παντὸς ἠέρος καὶ ἀστέρων τῶν ἄλλων ἀπλανέων τε καὶ εὐσταθέων¹ καὶ οὐδαμὰ κινεομένων δυώδεκα μοίρας ἐτάμοντο τοῖσι² κινεομένοισι, καὶ οἰκία ³ ζῷα ἐόντα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἐς ἄλλην μορφὴν μεμιμέαται, τὰ μὲν ἐνάλια, τὰ δὲ ἀνθρώπων, τὰ δὲ θηρῶν, τὰ δὲ πτηνῶν, τὰ δὲ κτηνέων.

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Περὶ τῆς Ἀστρολογίας (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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Astrology Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 6 focus

[6] And they devised other inventions much greater than these. For they divided the entire skye and the other stars that are inerrant and fixed, and do never move, into twelve segments for such as move: which they styled “houses,” although they resemble living creatures, each patterned after the figure of a different kind, whereof some are sea-monsters, some humans, some wild beasts, some volatiles, some juments.

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Περὶ τῆς Ἀστρολογίας

1. εὐσταθέων: Florentine ed. (1496): εὐπαθέων MSS.

2. ἐν τοῖσι. MSS: ἐν excised by Jacobitz.

3. οἰκία Lacuna in Γ (9 letters) E (12 —14). Probably οἰκία ═ οἴκους; i.e., planetary houses, cf. οἰκοδεοποτέουσι, § 20. Read καὶ οἰκία οὐνόμασαν, τὸ δʼ εἶδος ζῷα ἐόντα.

Lucian De astrologia 6

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