JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS THE YOUNGER,

OF SICILY, A MAN OF CONSULAR RANK, TO MAVORTIUS LOL-

LIANUS: THE EIGHT BOOKS ON ASTROLOGY.

GENERAL LIST OF CONTENTS.

FOR BOOK I OF FIRMICUS’S ASTROLOGY.


Preface to the First Book.
Astrology against the arguments of its rivals.	Chapter i
General refutation of objections.	chapter ii
Confutation of opposing arguments.	chapter iii
Specific refutation of objections.	chapter iiii

FOR BOOK II OF FIRMICUS’S ASTROLOGY.


Preface to the Second Book.
The division of the signs of the Zodiac and the nature of their condition.	Chapter i
The houses original: domicilia, names, and powers of the stars in the signs.	chapter ii
Exaltation original: altitudo and depression original: deiectio of the stars, and their condition.	chapter iii
The Decans ten-degree divisions of the zodiac of the signs and their lords.	chapter iiii
The division of the signs into thirty parts degrees.	chapter v
The bounds original: fines; the specific degrees of a sign assigned to different planets of the stars in each sign of the zodiac.	chapter vi
The diurnal or nocturnal joys of the stars.	chapter vii
The rising and setting of the stars and their condition.	chapter viii
The sectors of the morning and evening stars.	chapter ix
The leadership of all the wandering stars planets.	chapter x
The lords of the Triplicities original: trigona; groups of three signs belonging to the same element and their qualities.	chapter xi
The nature, forms, and qualities of the signs.	chapter xii
The rising of the signs according to different latitudes original: climata.	chapter xiii
The subjection of the signs to the winds.	chapter xiiii
The twelve-part divisions original: duodecatemoria; a technique where each sign is subdivided into twelve micro-signs of the signs.	chapter xv
Things to be considered regarding the Ascendant original: horoscopus.	chapter xvi
The angles original: cardines and the houses that follow them.	chapter xvii
The angles of the birth chart original: genitura.	chapter xviii
The four secondary places the succedent houses.	chapter xix
The idle and fallen places of the chart.	chapter xx
The order of the places in the chart.	chapter xxi
The powers of the twelve places.	chapter xxii
The names and astrological outcomes original: apotelesmata of the twelve places.	chapter xxiii
The qualities of birth charts: which are noble and which are middling.	chapter xxiv
All the aspects geometrical relationships of the stars.	chapter xxv
The relationship between the signs.	chapter xxvi
The dominion of the signs over the human body.	chapter xxvii
The giver of human life.	chapter xxviii
The time-lord original: cronocrator; the planet designated as the ruler of a specific period of life of human life.	chapter xxix
The division of times.	chapter xxx
The division of years by days.	chapter xxxi
The astrological outcome of the shadow-points original: antiscia; points mirrored across the solstice/equinox axis.	chapter xxxii
The conduct and character of the astrologer original: mathematicus.	chapter xxxiii

FOR BOOK III OF FIRMICUS’S ASTROLOGY.


Preface to the Third Book.
The chart of the world original: mundi thema; the mythical birth chart of the universe.	Chapter i
The first of the signs, Aries.	chapter ii