Παρθένος

ζωϊδίων δέ ἑ κύκλον ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν· τῷ ἔνι Καρκίνος ἐστί, Λέων ἐπὶ τῷ, μετὰ δ’ αὐτὸν Παρθένος (...) ἐν τοῖς ἠέλιος φέρεται δυοκαίδεκα πᾶσιν πάντ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἄγων, καί οἱ περὶ τοῦτον ἰόντι κύκλον ἀέξονται πᾶσαι ἐπικάρπιοι ὧραι.

‘They call it (sc. the ecliptic) by the name 'Circle of the figurines': in it is Cancer, after that there is Leo, after that is Virgo (...) In all twelve of them the Sun moves along as it passes each year, and as it goes around this circle, all the seasons wax fruitful.’

ὑπὸ δὲ τοὺς πόδας ἡ Παρθένος ἐστίν

‘Under the feet (sc. of the Bear-warden) is Virgo’

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.’

Παρθένος οἶκος Ἑρμοῦ, θηλυκόν, πτερωτόν, ἀνθρωποειδές, τρυφῆρες, σχήματι Δίκης ἑστώς, δίσωμον, στειρῶδες, δουλελεύθερον, ἄγονον, κατωφερές, γεῶδες, κοινόν, ἡμίφωνον καὶ ἄφωνον, σωματικόν, ἀτελές, εὐμετάβολον, ἐργαστηριακόν, διφυές.

‘Virgo is a house of Mercury, a feminine (sign), winged, humanoid, delicate (or, voluptuous), standing in the form of Justice, two-bodied, barren, of freedmen, infertile, descending, of earth, common, semi-voiced and unvoiced, corporeal, incomplete, variable, of workmen, two-natured’