astrum

Hoc astro [= Auriga] Oriente et Salmoneus et Bellorofontes nati esse narrantur.

‘It is told that both Salmoneus and Bellerophon were born as this constellation was rising.’

summum igitur caelum bis bina refugit ab imo astra, bis e senis ut sit pars tertia signis.

‘Therefore the highest point of heaven is twice two signs distant from the lowest, a distance, that is, of one third of the twelve signs.’

hunc penes arbitrium vitae est, hic regula morum, fortunamque dabit rebus, ducetque per artes, qualiaque excipiant nascentis tempora prima, quos capiant cultus, quali sint sede creati, utcumque admixtis subscribent viribus astra.

‘Within its domain lies the arbitrament of life and the formation of character; it will grant success to enterprises, open up the professions, and decide the early years that await men from their birth, the education they receive, and the station to which they are born, according as the planets approve and mingle their influences.’