Hellenistic Track Translations

Paulus Alexandrinus: Introductory Matters

(Greek Track Volume I)

Table of Contents

Introduction to Paulus Alexandrinus by Robert Hand .......................................................... iii

Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt .............................................................................. viii
          General Note ................................................................................................................ ix
                    Zoidion................................................................................................................. ix
                    Schema.................................................................................................................xi
                    Oikos................................................................................................................... xii
                    Planet Names...................................................................................................... xii
                    Moira................................................................................................................... xii
                    Apotelesmatic...................................................................................................... xiii
                    Horoskopos......................................................................................................... xiii

Introductory Matters by Paulus Alexandrinus ........................................................................... 1
          1. Preface ...................................................................................................................... 1
          2. On the Twelve Zoidia ................................................................................................ 1
          3. Concerning the Boundaries Which the Five Wandering Stars
                    Have Been Allotted in the Twelve Zoidia ............................................................. 6
          4. Concerning the Faces Which the Seven Stars Occupy upon
                    the Decans in the Twelve Zoidia ........................................................................ 11
          5. Concerning the Zoidion's Monomoiria, over Which the  Seven
                    Stars Have Mastery ........................................................................................... 13
          6. Concerning the Sect of the Two Lights .................................................................... 15
          7. Concerning Quadrants ............................................................................................ 16
          8. Concerning the Zoidia that See One Another .......................................................... 18
          9. Concerning Commanding and Obeying Znidia ......................................................... 21
          10. Concerning Triangles, Hexagons, Squares, and Diameters  as Figures ................. 23
          11. Concerning Znidia Unconnected to Each Other ...................................................... 25
          12. Concerning Those Znidia in Aversion and in Sympathy to  Each Other .................. 25
          13. Concerning the Like-engirding and Equally Rising Twelfth
                    Parts which are Figured ..................................................................................... 27
          14. Concerning the Phases Which the Five Stars Make in Relation to the Sun ............ 29
          15. Concerning Stations .............................................................................................. 31
          16. Concerning the Figures that the Moon Makes with the Sun .................................. 34
          17. Concerning the Separation and Application Which the Moon
                    Makes in Relation to the Wandering Stars ........................................................ 37
          18. On the Prior Knowledge of Winds ......................................................................... 39
          19. On Knowing How Many Days of the Gods There Are ............................................. 40
          20. On Knowing to Which of the Gods Each Day Belongs ............................................ 41
          21. Concerning the Star Going About and the One Executing ..................................... 42
          22. Concerning the Twelfth Parts ................................................................................ 44
          23. Concerning the Seven Lots in the Panaretus ........................................................ 46
          24. On the Tabular Exposition of the Twelve Places .................................................... 50
          25. On Children............................................................................................................ 61
          26. Concerning What One Does .................................................................................. 63
          27. On the Declines ..................................................................................................... 64
          28. On the Motion of the Sun and on Learning in What
                    Zoidion and Roughly What Degree It Is In......................................................... 66
          29. On How to Calculate the Horoskopos .................................................................... 67
          30. On the Midheaven ................................................................................................. 68
          31. Concerning Year and Month and Day .................................................................... 69
          32. Concerning the Monomoiria by Trigon ................................................................... 71
          33. On the Degree of the Horoskopos as it is Necessitated
                    Through Methods According to Nature .............................................................. 74
          34. Concerning Crises ................................................................................................. 76
          35. Concerning the Bond of the Moon ......................................................................... 79
          36. On Rulership .......................................................................................................... 80
          37. Genesis of the Cosmos .......................................................................................... 82

Appendix ............................................................................................................................... 84

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