Greek · 1st century CE (Greek original); Arabic version c. 800 CE
Carmen Astrologicum
Pentateuch; survives in Arabic (al-Ṭabarī) with Greek and Latin fragments
An astrological poem, lost in its Greek original and surviving in an Arabic translation, that treats retrograde planets in a birth chart as unfavourable. In Book I, ch. 6, a retrograde planet brings 'difficulty [and] misfortune' to the native; in ch. 24, retrograde planets in a strong nativity make him 'distressed, a coward', and in a bad one his condition tends toward deterioration (Pingree's translation).
- Author
- Dorotheus of Sidon
- Date
- 1st century CE (Greek original); Arabic version c. 800 CE
- Original language
- Greek (original, lost except fragments); Arabic (surviving translation)
- Kind
- Astrological
- Planets
- General · no planet named
Editions
2 editions.
| Year | Edition | © |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Dorothei Sidonii Carmen Astrologicum, ed. and tr. D. Pingree, Leipzig: Teubner, 1976 | © |
| 2017 | Dorotheus of Sidon, Carmen Astrologicum: The 'Umar al-Tabari Translation, tr. B. N. Dykes, Cazimi Press, 2017 | © |
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References
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