Astronomicon, Book I

are at once terrestrial and human, nor of Sagittarius, which is half human and wholly terrestrial. I have found no astrologer quite agreeing with Manilius in this division.

C.C.A.G. I p. 165 16: "Terrestrial are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius" (so too v iii p. 97 22 sq.). 34: "Aquatic are called those that are in waters or by waters or possess some part of water, Pisces, Cancer, Capricorn, Aquarius, Sagittarius; in the waters are ♓ ♋, by a part are ♑ and ♒, ♑ because of the tail, ♒ because of the Eridanus river poured out by it; and the because of Argo the ship and the sea lying below" (in v iii p. 96 32-4 ♒ ♑ ♐ are called semi-aquatic); then follows a cross-division, "Amphibious are Cancer and Capricorn" (so v iii p. 97 24). But in Ludw. Maxim. p. 106 6-9, "Terrestrial: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius" and "Aquatic (moist in C.C.A.G. v iii p. 97 25): Cancer, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces," Sagittarius is transferred to the terrestrial and Scorpius, perhaps by accident, omitted; then comes a strange list of "Amphibious: Taurus, Cancer, Scorpius, Sagittarius." Hephaestio I 1 gives the epithet terrestrial to Aries, Taurus, Leo, Scorpius, and Sagittarius, aquatic to no sign, swimming to Pisces, and amphibious to Cancer and Capricornus: upon the human signs Gemini, Libra, Virgo, and Aquarius he confers no title of this sort. Other lists, as comm. Ptol. p. 67, Vett. Val. I 2, C.C.A.G. IV p. 152 and VII pp. 194-213, are too incomplete and desultory to be worth quoting.

The term watery, which Scaliger misapplies, does not belong to this classification but to another, which may be found in Ludw. Maxim. pp. 105 24-106 2 and C.C.A.G. IV p. 152 21-3.

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Three signs, Cancer, Scorpius, Pisces, are fruitful, like the prolific creatures from which they take their names. Three are barren: the Virgin; the Lion, because the lioness was thought to bear cubs once only; and Aquarius, for the reasons suggested in verse 239. The remaining six are neither barren nor notably fertile.

The Greeks have various names for these qualities, and allot them variously to the signs. The prolific in Ludw. Maxim. p. 108 20 and C.C.A.G. I p. 166 4 and v iii p. 97 17 are the fecunda of Manilius, Cancer, Scorpius, Pisces; in C.C.A.G. VII pp. 194-211 and Vett. Val. I 2 only Cancer and Pisces are so called, and Scorpius is multi-seeded or many-seeded instead; in C.C.A.G. VII p. 212 21 sq. and v iii p. 97 16 all three are many-seeded and in Ptol. Tetrabiblos p. 49 all three are many-seeded, while in Ludw. Maxim. p. 108 21 and C.C.A.G. I p. 166 3 the many-seeded are Aries, Taurus, Pisces: Hephaestio I 1 calls Cancer and Pisces fruitful. Sterile is barren or unfruitful or barren-like, but I find no one who at once extends and confines any of these terms to the three sterilia of Manilius, Leo, Virgo, Aquarius. C.C.A.G. I p. 166 5 sq.: "Barren and unfruitful are these: Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius; also Leo is said to be so because of bearing once." Ludw. Maxim. p. 108 23: "Barren: Capricorn. Unfruitful: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Capricorn." In Heph. Theb. I 1 Leo, Virgo, Sagittarius, Capricorn are unfruitful; in Ptol. Tetrabiblos p. 49 Leo and Virgo are given as examples of unfruitful, and in C.C.A.G. v iii p. 97 18 sq. these two are unfruitful while Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn are barren. Then there are the few-producing: Aries, Taurus, Leo