τόπος

ὄγδοος τόπος θανάτου· παντοῖαι θεωρίαι· οἱ ἀγαθοποιοὶ παρόντες ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ ἄπρακτοι καὶ ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ἀμέριστοι τῶν ἰδίων ἀγαθῶν

‘Eighth place, of death, all kinds of theoretical considerations: when the benefic (planets) are present in this place, they are ineffectual and weak and do not partake in their own benefits.’

Εἰσὶ μέντοι τόποι τινὲς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅπου συμβαίνει τὸν μὲν παρ’ ἡμῖν πόλον τὸν ἀεὶ φανερὸν ἐκείνοις ἀόρατον εἶναι, τὸν δὲ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἀόρατον ἐκείνοις φανερὸν εἶναι.

‘There are some places on the earth though, where it happens that the pole always visible for us is invisible to them, but that the invisible one for us is visible to them.’

Διχῶς δὲ λέγεται ζῴδιον, καθ’ ἕνα μὲν τρόπον τὸ ιβʹον μέρος τοῦ ζῳδιακοῦ κύκλου, ὅ ἐστι διάστημά τι τόπου ἢ ἄστροις ἢ σημείοις ἀφοριζόμενον, καθ’ ἕτερον δὲ τὸ ἐκ τῶν ἀστέρων εἰδωλοπεποιημένον κατὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα καὶ τὴν θέσιν τῶν ἀστέρῶν.

‘The word “zōidion” is uttered in two ways, according to one way as the 12th part of the zodiac, which is some interval of space marked off by either stars or points, and according to the other as the image formed from the stars according to the likeness and the position of the stars.’

Τὰ δὲ κατηστεριγμένα ζῴδια οὔτε ἴσα ἐστὶ κατὰ τὸ μέγεθος οὔτε ἐξ ἴσων ἀστέρων συνέστηκεν οὔτε πάντα ἐκπληροῖ τοὺς ἰδίους τόπους τῶν δωδεκατημορίων· ἀλλ’ ἃ μὲν ἐλλείπει, καθάπερ ὁ Καρκίνος· μικρὸν γὰρ τόπον ἐπέχει τοῦ ἰδίου τόπου· ἃ δὲ ὑπερπίπτει καὶ μέρη τινὰ τῶν προηγουμένων καὶ τῶν ἑπομένων ζῳδίων ἐπιλαμβάνει, καθάπερ ὁ Λέων· (...)

‘But the constellations are not equal in size, nor are they put together from an equal amount of stars, nor do they all fill up their own spaces of the twelfth parts. Rather, some fall short, such as Cancer: for it occupies a small space of its own space; but others extend beyond and lay hold of some part of the preceding and the following zodiac signs, such as Leo; (...)’