Δίδυμοι

κατέναντι δὲ τῆς κεφαλῆς τῆς Μεγάλης Ἄρκτου ὁ Ἡνίοχος ἔχει τοὺς ὤμους λοξὸς ὢν ὑπὲρ τοὺς πόδας τῶν Διδύμων, ἔχων τὸν δεξιὸν πόδα κοινὸν τῷ ἐν ἄκρῳ τῷ ἀριστερῷ κέρατι τοῦ Ταύρου

‘Opposite the head of the Great Bear, the Charioteer, which stands at a slant, has its shoulders above the feet of the Twins (i.e. Gemini), sharing its right foot with the (star) at the tip of the left horn of the Bull (i.e. Taurus)’

ζωϊδίων δέ ἑ κύκλον ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν· τῷ ἔνι Καρκίνος ἐστί (...) τοὺς δὲ μέτα Κριός, Ταῦρος δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ Δίδυμοί τε.

‘They call it (sc. the ecliptic) by the name 'Circle of the figurines': in it is Cancer (...) and after them Aries, and after it Taurus and Gemini’

Ἔστι δὲ καὶ τὰ ιβʹ ζῴδια τάδε· Κριός, Ταῦρος, Δίδυμοι, Καρκίνος, Λέων, Παρθένος, Ζυγός, Σκορπίος, Τοξότης, Αἰγόκερως, Ὑδροχόος, Ἰχθύες.

‘And the 12 zodiac signs are these: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces.’

Δίδυμοί εἰσιν ἀρσενικοί, δίσωμοι, εὔφωνοι, οἶκος Ἑρμοῦ, ἀνωφερεῖς, ἀερώδεις, θηλυνόμενοι, δουλελεύθεροι, στειρώδεις, δημόσιοι.

‘Gemini is masculine, two-bodied, good-voiced, a house of Mercury, ascending, of air, effeminate, of freedmen, barren, of the (common) people’