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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 29
Section 612 of 757
Canonical reference 5.29
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν περὶ ζῳδίων τῶν δὲ ἀστέρων ἐνίους μὲν ἀγαθοποιοὺς εἶναι λέγουσιν ἐνίους δὲ κακοποιοὺς τι- νὰς δὲ καὶ κοινούς, οἷον ἀγαθοποιοὺς μὲν τὸν τοῦ Διὸς καὶ τὸν Ἀφροδίτης, κακοποιοὺς δὲ τὸν τοῦ Ἄρεως καὶ Κρόνου, ἐπίκοινον δὲ τὸν τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ, ἐπείπερ μετὰ μὲν ἀγαθοποιῶν ἀγαθοποιὸς μετὰ δὲ κακοποιῶν κακοποιός.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
So much concerning the signs. Of the stars, they say that some are beneficent, some maleficent, and some common to both. Jupiter and Venus, for example, are beneficent, Mars and Saturn maleficent, and Mercury common to both, since with beneficent stars it is beneficent and with maleficent stars maleficent.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Voilà pour les signes. Parmi les astres, ils disent que certains sont bienfaisants, certains malfaisants et certains mixtes. Ainsi, ceux de Zeus et d’Aphrodite sont bienfaisants, ceux d’Arès et de Cronos malfaisants, et celui d’Hermès est mixte, puisqu’il est bienfaisant avec les bienfaisants et malfaisant avec les malfaisants.
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