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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 9 · Signature · Passage 71
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 p. 270
Latin
Chaomantia signa sua exhibet per astra, aeris & venti, per discolorationem, perditionem & vastationem omnium tenerarum & subolium rerum, quibus ventus adversus est, excutiendo & denudando flores, folia, frondes, caules. Si astra chaomantiae moventur, Necrocomicae ex superiore aere decidunt, & frequenter voces ac responsa audiuntur: Item arbores cum radicibus ex terra evelluntur, & aedes prosternuntur. Conspiciuntur Lemures, Penates, Undenae, Sylvani, &c. Sic etiam Tereniabin, Tronossia, & Manna, super arbores & herbas decidit.
English
Chaomancy displays its signs through the stars of air and wind: through the discolouring, destruction and devastation of tender things and new growths harmed by wind, which shakes off and strips flowers, leaves, foliage and stalks. When the stars of chaomancy move, necrocomicae fall from the upper air and voices and answers are often heard. Trees are torn from the earth with their roots and buildings are thrown down. Lemures, penates, undenae and sylvans are seen. Tereniabin, tronossia and manna also fall upon trees and herbs.
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the historical title, dedication and all nine books, with 363 separately labelled historical marginal notes, 117 modern annotations and the complete Diotimos study apparatus. The transmitted composite work is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus; individual authorship remains qualified.
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The normalized Latin follows the complete 1605 Frankfurt Palthenian witness, volume six, printed pages 198–271, in SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, historical scans 182–255. Earlier textual tradition is German; the individual translator of the 1605 Latin text is not identified. The dedication’s 1537 date is transmitted text, not an established date for the composite work.
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