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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[201] We should expect rather five instead of 9, if the division be by nine.
[202] There is some confusion in the text. Miller conjectures that the reading should be: “As, for instance, the name Patroclus has the letter o occurring twice in it, they therefore take it into calculation once.” Schneidewin suggests that the form of the name may be Papatroclus.
[203] Miller says there is an error in the calculation here.
[204] This is as near the sense of the passage as a translation in some respects conjectural can make it.
[205] The word θέλειν occurs in this sentence, but is obviously superfluous.
[206] In the margin of the ms. is the note, “Opinion of the Metopiscopists.”
[207] These words are out of place. See next note.
[208] There is evidently some displacement of words here. Miller and Schneidewin suggest: “There are some who ascribe to the influence of the stars the natures of men: since, in computing the births of individuals, they thus express themselves as if they were moulding the species of men.” The Abbe Cruice would leave the text as it is, altering only τυποῦντες ἰδέας into τύπων τε ἰδέας.
[209] Literally, “jumping;” others read “blackish,” or “expressive” (literally, “talking”). The vulgar reading, ὑπὸ ἄλλοις, is evidently untenable.
[210] Or “cowardly,” or “cowards at heart;” or some read, χαροποιοὶ, i.e., “causative of gladness.”
[211] Or, “diseased with unnatural lust,” i.e., νοσοῦντες for νοοῦντες.
[212] Or, κατ᾽ ἔπος, “verbally rejecting anything.”
Chapter XVI.—Type of Those Born Under Taurus.
[213] Or better, “weak in the limbs.”
[214] Or, “short.”
Chapter XVII.—Type of Those Born Under Gemini.
[215] Or, “parts.”
[216] Some read καλῶ γεγεννημένων, or καλῶ τετεννημένων.
[217] Or, “they are given to hoarding, they have possessions.”
[218] This is an amended reading of the text, which is obviously confused. The correction necessary is introduced lower down in the ms., which makes the same characteristic be twice mentioned. The Abbe Cruice, however, accounts for such a twofold mention, on the ground that the whole subject is treated by Hippolytus in such a way as to expose the absurdities of the astrologic predictions. He therefore quotes the opinions of various astrologers, in order to expose the diversities of opinion existing among them.
Chapter XVIII.—Type of Those Born Under Cancer.
[219] Manilius maintains that persons born under Cancer are of an avaricious and usurious disposition. (See Astronom., iv. 5.)
Chapter XIX.—Type of Those Born Under Leo.
[220] Or, “having the upper parts larger than the lower.”
[221] Some read αναλοι.
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