Hippolytus

“ But since also they frame an account concerning the action of the zodiacal signs, to which they say the creatures that are procreated are assimilated, [1] neither shall we omit this: as, for instance, that one born in Leo will be brave; and that one born in Virgo will have long straight hair, [2] be of a fair complexion, childless, modest. ”

“ The art, after having become almost extinct, was revived by the Arabians at the verve of the middle ages. For the history of astrology one must consult the writings of Manilius, Julius Firmicus, and Ptolemy. Its greatest mediæval apologist is Cardan, the famous physician of Pavia (see his work, De Astron. Judic., lib. vi.–ix. tom. v. of his collected works) .↑ Sextus adds, “bright-eyed.”↑ Hippolytus here follows Sextus.↑ Aratus, from whom Hippolytus quotes so frequently in this chapter, was a poet and astronomer of antiquity, born at Soli in Cilicia. ”