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    ! colspan=2 style="background-color: #F5F5F5; text-align: center" | Vettius Valens
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    ! colspan=2 style="background-color: #F5F5F5;" | ''The Anthology''
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    ! colspan=2 style="background-color: #F5F5F5;" | Book 9, Chapter 5, pgs. 325-327 in Pingree's edition.
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    ! colspan=2 style="background-color: #F5F5F5;" | Edited by David Pingree
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    ! colspan=2 style="background-color: #F5F5F5;" | Translation first uploaded August 18, 2008
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    | style="text-align: left;" | '''Translation:'''
    | Christopher Scott
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    | style="text-align: left;" | '''Greek Entry & Editing:''' 
    |Chris Brennan
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    | style="text-align: left;" |'''Additional Contributors:'''
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Translation by Christopher Scott.

   
'''5. Concerning the time a person takes to bed ill and the inception of events:'''

Now then, one must also judge the time when a person takes to bed ill in the same way.  From 
the dawn of the natal conjunction of the generative day, having learned the multitude of days we cut 
away, as much as we are able, from the 4year period, having noted the excess of the quarter (¼) 
numbers.  We take from the dawn of the conjunction of the current year of the natal day, and having cut 
away (by division) from the 4year period, we interpret what remains.  In the third computation, it is 
necessary to take from the dawn of the conjunction leading toward the time a person takes to bed of the 
falling-ill (κατακλιτικῆς) day , and having cut away (by division) the 4year period it is necessary to 
interpret the remaining number with the preceding numbers.  If at any time three signs (γραφαὶ) should 
leave off (καταλήξωσιν) at the same number, a deadly time shall be judged; on the other hand, if 
different, then judge the danger having suddenly come on account of either a disease or an accident or 
an injury.

Through experiment it seems to us to guide us not only to effective inceptions of takingtobed
ill, but also of all matters whichever of which happen at that time – of a lesser event, of a notable event, 
of an introductory event, of a blameworthy event, of a social event – and, singularly, not only those 
things coming to an end for men, but also events from men such as the establishment of things, the 
preparations of votive offerings, voyages, the appointing of generals, the beginnings of wars, and of bad 
and good undertakings.  And according to this course (of action), if we would wish to say, much of my 
reckoning concerning these matters will be born out.

From which according to the time of the inception and the time of the occasion and only this, 
the final interpretation of the form (class/nature) will be judged truly good or even when crosswise or 
long-lasting or unstable or beneficial or of a harmful nature, and not as some sorcerers who may try to 
tabulate all matters from one inception, not only concerning events but also the times of life, they are 
willing to cheat the souls of those who approach (them).  For, if desirable, since the horoscope was set, 
with a sober reckoning according to an event of a formation in combination and belonging to a cardinal 
point, some would begin to interpret not by multitudes of calculations but of those which are being 
directing through brevity into the truth.  Such a one would seem a steersman of life and to have become 
a good counselor and a genuine prophet of fate.  But some according to these are ignorant and 
becoming lovers of wealth: for being flatterers and false, bringing in pleasures, make obscure the 
reasoning and maintaining inflated souls cast them down from heaven into the earth, when those taking 
more agonizing (options?) furnish fully an irresistible prognostication.

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'''ζ´. Περὶ κατακλίςεως καὶ καταρχῶν'''

Συγκρίνειν δὲ δεῖ καὶ τὰς γινομένας κατακλίσεις τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον.  


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