qui constellatione percontantis inspecta pariter annum mensem diemque dixerunt, quos, ut verbo matheseos utar, climactericos esset habiturus, utpote quibus themate oblato quasi sanguinariae geniturae schema patuisset, quia videlicet amici nascentis anno, quemcumque clementem planeticorum siderum globum in diastemata zodiaca prosper ortus erexerat, hunc in occasu cruentis ignibus inrubescentes seu super diametro Mercurius asyndetus seu super tetragono Saturnus retrogradus seu super centro Mars apocatastaticus exacerbassent.
These men, on examining the disposition of the planets which affected their inquirer, told him alike the year the month and the day which would be for him climacteric (to use the astrological term); for, when the aspect of the heavens presented itself to their eyes, clearly, they said, the diagram of a bloody nativity had been revealed: in our friends natal year (they explained) any benevolent planetary orb that a propitious rising had lifted into the houses of the zodiac had been rendered malignant at its setting by some planet red with a bloody flame'either by Mercury asyndetic in opposition; or by Saturn retrograde, in square; or by Mars, apocatastatic, in configuration.
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