《Tetrabiblos》Book 3Claudius Ptolemy（Ashmand 英譯 1822）
Still, however, the causes of general events are greater and more complete than those of particular events; and, although it has been now stated, that one single identical power supplies both the causation and the foreknowledge of general as well as particular events, yet there does not belong to the two sorts of events a similar origin or beginning, at which observation of the celestial configurations must be made, for prognostication.
段落 tetra-3-ch-3public-domain (Ashmand 1822)
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