⚠The text contains numerous scribal abbreviations typical of early printing (e.g., macrons for nasals, sigla for 'que', 'pro', 'per', 'rum'). Punctuation includes the pilcrow (¶) and the virgula suspensiva (/).

just as in spring. In those early years, the person is soft and tender. In the second stage of years, up until the full station of heat, heat prevails just as it does in summer. In the third stage of years, in which one is near their decline and around the beginning of diminishing, dryness is stronger, just as in autumn. And in the final years, in which one reaches destruction, coldness overcomes them, just as in winter.

Chapter 11. On the strengths of the four

angles and the four parts of the horizon.

In the same way, we must speak concerning the qualities of the four locations of the horizon and the angles from which the blowing of the winds begins toward every part. ¶ In the part which is called the East original: "oriens", dryness is stronger; this is because when the sun moves through that part, it does not cease to dry out whatever the night has moistened. Also, because the winds which emit their blasts from that part—generally called Oriental—are deprived of all moisture and are desiccating. ¶ The Southern part original: "meridiana" is the hottest. This is because the sun's heat is great when it lingers in the middle of the sky. And since this part is to the right relative to the position of our region, the winds which proceed from that part are generally called Meridional; they are hot and burning. ¶ The Western part original: "occidentalis" is indeed moist. This is because when the sun lingers in that part, those things which the day dried out soon begin to be moistened; and the winds which proceed from there, which we generally call Western, are softening and moistening. ¶ The Northern part original: "septentrionalis" is the coldest. This is because the causes of heat which fall upon us due to the sun's presence in the middle of the sky are greatly distanced from us according to the location of our position. And since it is placed in opposition to the sun's position in the mid-heaven occupying/holding?, the winds proceeding from this part are the coldest and most constricting. ¶ Therefore, the

knowledge of these things is valid and profitable for the understanding of the temperaments complexionum: the balance of the four humors/qualities in a person or thing of all parts at every hour. Therefore, it is plain and open that the efficient power of the stars is changed according to the qualities of the times of the years and the angles. For when all things are assimilated to them, those stars that are heating are assimilated in hot modes; their qualities will be pure and without any other mixture. For this reason, their works will be stronger. For example: stars that are naturally heating are stronger in hot modes, and stars that are similarly moistening are stronger in moist modes. Conversely, their powers in the opposites of these modes are not pure; rather, being mixed with other things, they are weak—just as happens with the powers of heating stars in cold modes, and the strengths of moistening stars in desiccating modes. We should not doubt that the same occurs in all other modes according to the mixture of qualities.

Chapter 12. On the fixed, movable,

and common signs.

These things having been premised, it follows that we should add the proper changes of the parts of the circle of signs the Zodiac as they have come down to us. These are the general temperaments of each of the times, which are assimilated by our [observations], and also certain of their properties which are assimilated to the sun, moon, and other stars. We shall commemorate these in the following sections, assigning the previously mentioned powers of the signs in themselves without any other mixture. ¶ Indeed, the first difference of the signs is that some of them are called tropical, some equinoctial, some fixed, and some common. ¶ There are two tropical points: namely, the 30 degrees which follow the point of the summer solstice without interval—and these are the degrees of Cancer—and the other 30 degrees following the point of the winter solstice in orderly succession.