《Tetrabiblos》Animal Quits The Womb, And Assumes Another State Of ExistenceClaudius Ptolemy（Ashmand 英譯 1822）
With this view, certain places in the Ambient, regulating the formation of all inferences of the events liable to affect mankind, are appointed as a kind of mark to which the whole theory of those inferences is applied, and to which the operative powers of the stars, when holding familiarity with the said places, are in a general manner directed: in the same way as, in archery, the arrow is directed to the target.
段落 tetra-3-animalquit-12public-domain (Ashmand 1822)
↗ 開啟公有領域原文（Wikisource）此段為公有領域典籍逐字擷取，零 AI 生成；原文亦存繁化前底本，可逐字審計。我們寧可少引、不可錯引——驗不過的引文一律捨棄。