卷二·第十三章·第三部　死亡之兆

PART. III.

第三部

Signes of Death.

死亡之兆。

FIrst of all the Lord of the Ascendent afflicted in the eighth, the Patient is more madde to be apud inferos, then death is to have him; The man will dye, and his life will be cast away absolutely with evill guidance.

一、首先，上升主星在第八宫受克，病人急着去阴间，比死神急着要他还甚；这人会死，他的性命会因指引不当而白白断送。

2 If at the Decumbiture you find the Lord of the ascendent, combust in the ascendent, passe the same judgement with the former.

二、若在卧床之时，你发现上升主星在上升宫中焦伤，下同前面一样的判断。

3 If the Lord of the eighth house be in the mid-heavens, and afflict the Lord of the Ascendent, the Physick will be in a shrewd mistake, and instead of curing goe neer to kill.

三、若第八宫主在中天，又克害上升主星，医药就会犯下严重的错误，不但治不好，反而差点要了命。

Listen to this, O Colledge of Physicians; let me intreat you to learn the principles of your trade; and I beseech you no longer mistake avarice for witt and honesty.

听听这个吧，医师学会啊；让我恳求你们学一学你们这一行的基本原理；我求你们别再把贪婪错当作才智与诚实。

4 The Lord of the eighth very strong in the Ascendent, gives you faire warning that death's a coming.

四、第八宫主在上升宫而十分强旺，是在清楚地警告你：死亡要来了。

5 A conjunction between the Lord of the eighth, and the Lord of the Ascendent, is as mortall a signe as the Lord of the heavens can shew.

五、第八宫主与上升主星会合，是诸天之主所能显示的最致命的征兆。

6 It is a very unlucky signe when the Lord of the eighth house is Lord of the house at the decumbiture. And not much better if the Lord of the house at the decumbiture be afflicted by the Lord of the eighth; especially if the Lord of the eight be a malevolent.

六、第八宫主若是卧床之时的时辰主星，是很不吉的征兆。卧床之时的时辰主星若被第八宫主所克，也好不了多少；尤其第八宫主若是凶星。

Such ill beginning of a disease usually proves fatal at the latter end, unlesse the Physician be a very able man

这样坏的开头，到后来通常是致命的，除非医生是个很能干的人

7 If the Lord of the Ascendent fall retrograde from the body of the Lord of the eighth, it gives you a timely warning of death at their next conjunction, unlesse the Lord of the ascendent meet with the Sun before he meet with the Lord of death againe.

七、若上升主星从第八宫主的本体处逆行退开，就及时警告你：到它们下一次会合时就是死期，除非上升主星在再次遇上死亡之主以前先遇上太阳。

8 The Lord of the eighth in conjunction square, or opposition to the Moon at the decumbiture, threatens death, unlesse there be a reception between them. If the Lord of the eight be retrograde or infortunated, you may the more confide in his judgement.

八、卧床之时第八宫主与月亮会合、四分或对冲，就预示死亡，除非两者之间有接纳。若第八宫主逆行或受克，你就更可以信他的判断。

9 The Lord of the eighth in an angle, especially the westerne angle, the Moon and Lord of the ascendent being in cadent houses or afflicted by malevolents; death may be feared, and that justly to; especially if a malevolent be in the eighth, or Lord of that house.

九、第八宫主在角宫，尤其在西方的角宫，月亮与上升主星又在果宫或受凶星克害；死亡就可怕了，而且怕得有理；尤其若有凶星在第八宫，或是那一宫之主。

10 The Moon with both Saturne and Jupiter, profits not the sick at all, unlesse Jupiter be much stronger then Saturne, or with the Lord of the Ascendent then either of them.

十、月亮同时与土星和木星在一起，对病人毫无益处，除非木星比土星强得多，或与上升主星同在，比它们两个都强。

In such a case medicines under the influence of Jupiter will do good, because his body is afflicted by so potent an adversary.

在这种情况下，属木星的药会有好处，因为他的本体受着如此强大的对手的克害。

This had I from Dr. Reason; neither is it barely to assist him of truth, but a foundation to build other truths upon; a rule for practice; a key to open the closet of practice; an heurete to find other truths by.

这是我从理性博士那里得来的；它不只是一条真理的断言，而且是在其上建造别的真理的根基；一条实践的规则；一把打开实践密室的钥匙；一件用来发现别的真理的工具。

11 The Lord of the ascendent in the aspect, or with the antiscion of an infortune in the eighth, threatens death, unlesse the wholsome beames of Jupiter and Venus helpe; which if, there will be a strong contest between nature and the disease.

十一、上升主星与在第八宫的凶星成相位，或落在它的映点上，预示死亡，除非木星和金星有益的光线相助；若有相助，本性与病之间就会有一场激烈的较量。

The fortunes strive to maintain nature the infortunes to destroy them: In such acase, look which is strongest, and passe judgment upon the end of the dispute accordingly.

吉星力图维护本性，凶星力图毁掉它：在这种情况下，看谁更强，就照这场争执的结局下判断。

12 If you find the Moon in like case in an acute disease, or the Sun in a Chronical, passe the same judgement.

十二、急症中你若发现月亮处境相同，或慢性病中发现太阳处境相同，下同样的判断。

If there be a reception between the Lord of the ascendent, and the Lord of the eighth by any aspect, the sick will probably live; and that as I remember I told you before. But the sicknesse will be long and tedious, and the effects of it lye long in the body, and that I never told you till now.

若上升主星与第八宫主之间凭任何相位有接纳，病人多半能活；这一点，我记得前面已经告诉过你们。可是病会又长又拖，病的后果会长久留在身体里，这一点我直到现在才告诉你们。

14 The Moon with Saturne and Mars, or the Moon with the one, and the Sun with the other, or either of them with one, and the Lord of the ascendent with the other, or the Lord of the ascendent with both, gives shrewde suspitions, that the sicknesse is but the Prodromus or usherer in of death.

十四、月亮与土星、火星同在，或月亮与其中一颗、太阳与另一颗同在，或日月各与其中一颗、上升主星与另一颗同在，或上升主星与两颗都同在，就让人大大怀疑这病不过是死亡的先驱或引路人。

15 The slower in motion the afflicting infortune is, the worse it is; for then the Moon meets him againe upon the Criticall day.

十五、为害的凶星行得越慢越坏；因为那样月亮会在危象之日再次遇上他。

16 The Lord of the ascendent in the seventh or fourth houses, and there afflicted, gives warning to the sick man that his dissolution is at hand.

十六、上升主星在第七宫或第四宫，又在那里受克，就警告病人：他的大限到了。

17 An infortune upon the Cuspe of the Horiscope, bids the sick provide for a change.

十七、凶星在上升点的宫头上，就是叫病人准备迎接一场变化。

18 Fixed stars of a violent nature, speaks the same language, if they be upon the Horiscope.

十八、性质暴烈的恒星若在上升点上，说的也是同样的话。

19 Those fixed stars are said to be of a violent nature, which are of the nature of Saturne or Mars; as Lanx Australis, the Buls eyes, the Scorpions heart, &c. and some which are of the nature of the fortunes, if Authors mistake not their natures, as Algol, or the head of Midusa which is placed in the Buckler of Perseus. The Grecian Astrologers call him the Devils-head; and yet all the Astrologers Jupiter and Venus to have a share in his nature. Let it suffice that all hold, and Doctor Experience himselfe certifies, that his conditions are as bad as who is worst. Neither shall he come behind any one of the fixed starres in doing mischiefe.

十九、性质暴烈的恒星，是那些具有土星或火星性质的，如南秤、牛眼、天蝎之心等等；还有一些据说具有吉星的性质，如果作者们没有弄错它们的本性的话，如大陵五，即放在珀耳修斯的盾上的美杜莎之首。希腊的星占家称他为魔鬼之首；可是所有星占家却都认为木星和金星在他的本性里有份。只要说这一点就够了：人人都认为，经验博士本人也证实，他的品性坏得不比最坏的差。他干起坏事来，也不会落在任何一颗恒星的后面。

20 If the Moon be void of course at the beginning of the sicknesse, and yet afflicted upon a criticall day, a good Crisis cannot be hoped; an ill Crisis may justly be feared and that not without grounds from sober rules of Art.

二十、若病开始时月亮空亡，而在某个危象之日受克，就不能指望好的危象；坏的危象倒有理由担心，而且这担心并非没有根据，是出于技艺的稳妥规则。

21 The Lord of the ascendent in Leo or Aquarius impedited by the body of the Lord of the 6th or 12th houses, signifies danger of death.

二十一、上升主星在狮子或水瓶，被第六宫主或第十二宫主的本体所阻，主有死亡的危险。

22 Both the Luminaries afflicted under the earth, carry the same signification.

二十二、两光都在地下受克，含义相同。

23. It is evill if the Moon be in a detriment or fall at the Crisis, though she be not afflicted at all; The time of the Crisis is the time of a combate between nature and the disease.

二十三、若危象之时月亮在陷或落，即使她完全不受克，也是凶的；危象之时，是本性与病交战之时。

And if the Moon be weake, she is not able to maintaine nature in the combate.

而月亮若是弱的，她就不能在交战中支持本性。

24 The Sun afflicted by the body Square or Opposition or Antiscion of a malevolent, it tels the patient the disease will be long and tedious, if not mortall; and bids him provide himselfe of such a Physician as knowes how to do something else besides onely to tell mony.

二十四、太阳被凶星的本体、四分、对冲或映点所克，就是告诉病人：病会又长又拖，就算不致命；并且叫他给自己找一位除了数钱之外还懂得做点别的事的医生。

25 The Moon opposed to the Lord of the ascendent at the beginning of a sicknesse, if the Lord of the ascendent be also retrograde or cumbust, shews bitter accidents will fall out to the sick during the time of his sicknesse; He is a wise Physician that can remedy them; but he is wise that can anticipate them.

二十五、病开始时月亮与上升主星对冲，而上升主星又逆行或焦伤，就显示病人在病中会遭遇痛苦的意外；能补救的医生是明智的；但能预先防备的医生才是有智慧的。

26 The Moon in the fourth house with the body square, opposition or antiscion of Mars, soon brings a man to his last inheritance, the Grave; she threatens it, if she be there no way afflicted, unlesse she be very strong.

二十六、月亮在第四宫，与火星本体会合，或成四分、对冲，或在其映点，很快就把人带到他最后的产业——坟墓；她即使在那里全不受克，也预示这一点，除非她十分强旺。

27 As I have judged by the Moon, so judge by Mars if you find him; for if he being there have any dignities in the ascendent, he will urge a man as fast to his grave as ever sleep urged him to bed.

二十七、我凭月亮怎样判断，若你发现火星在那里，也凭他这样判断；因为他若在那里，又在上升星座里有任何尊贵，他就会催人进坟墓，快得就像睡意催人上床一样。

28 Saturne opposite to the Lord of the eighth house, threatens danger enough to the sicke.

二十八、土星与第八宫主对冲，对病人是够危险的了。

29 The Moon in Conjunction with Mars in the fourth house will send the sick to take a supper in another world, though both their fortunes stand and look upon him.

二十九、月亮与火星在第四宫会合，会把病人送到另一个世界去吃晚饭，即使两颗吉星都站在一旁照着他。

30 The Moon in the ascendent, if you will believe Authors, alwayes hurts; and they give some shew of reason of it, because there she hath most power over the body of the sick.

三十、如果你肯相信作者们的话，月亮在上升宫总是有害的；他们也给出一些看似有理的理由，因为她在那里对病人的身体最有权柄。

Yet mine owne opinion for the present is, that if she be there, and in Cancer or Taurus, she will rather helpe then hinder the sick. If the Moon doe hate the ascendent as Authors say, I suppose the reason to be because Saturn loves it. And then she hates the eighth and twelfth houses by the same rule. And if you wil call your wits into examination, they will tell you it is true enough.

可我自己眼下的意见是：她若在那里，又在巨蟹或金牛，与其说是妨害病人，不如说是帮助病人。若真像作者们说的那样，月亮憎恶上升宫，我猜想理由是因为土星喜爱它。照同样的道理，她也就憎恶第八宫与第十二宫。你若肯把你的才智叫来考问一番，它们会告诉你这是千真万确的。

31 If the Moon be in the ascendent, and the signe ascending of a contrary nature to her, it is a hundred to one that the sicke die not of that disease.

三十一、若月亮在上升宫，而上升的星座与她的本性相反，病人百有九十九不会死于这场病。

And here my Author spoke something to the purpose; If the former Aphorisme made a discord in your braine, this if rightly understood, will reduce them to a harmony.

这里我的作者倒说了些中肯的话；若前一条格言在你脑子里造成了不和谐，这一条若理解得对，就会把它们调成和谐。

32 The Moon applying to the body of the Sun, within twelve degrees at the Decumbiture, the sicknesse comes not so much to terrifie your body, as to give you warning of your end.

三十二、卧床之时月亮入相太阳的本体，相距在十二度以内，这病来不是为了吓唬你的身体，而是为了警告你：你的终点到了。

And the neerer the Moon is to the body of the Sun, the speedier dispatch will death make of the body of his captive.

月亮离太阳的本体越近，死亡就越快地了结他的俘虏的身体。

33 The Moon besieged by the bodies of the malevolents positive between the Sun and one of them, the hopes of life are very small, or none at all.

三十三、月亮被凶星的本体所围困，位于太阳与其中一颗凶星之间，生还的希望就很小，或者全无。

34 Authors say, That if a man or woman fall sick when the Moon is going out of combustion, their sicknesse will increase till she comes to the opposition of the Sun. And if then she meet with an ill Planet, the sick recovers; if not, they die. For mine own particular, I speake no more then I have found by continuall experience; I have often found this false and never true.

三十四、作者们说，若一个男人或女人在月亮正走出焦伤时病倒，病会一直加重，直到她走到与太阳对冲。那时她若遇上一颗凶星，病人就康复；若没有，他们就死。就我个人而言，我只说我凭不断的经验所发现的：我常常发现这条是错的，从没发现它对过。

35 If the Sun or Moon be Lord of the house at the decumbiture, and behold the Lord of the eighth; the sicknesse is sent to proclaime the approach of death.

三十五、若太阳或月亮是卧床之时的时辰主星，又照第八宫主；这病就是派来宣告死亡临近的。

36 It is very bad when the Moon carries the light of the lord of the ascendent to the lord of the eighth, it threatens death; but it does not so in all diseases neither; for example, in such as come and goe by fits, as Agues, falling sickness, &c. you may make this use of it; that none are fit to make Physicians, but such as are intimately acquainted with Madam Nature, and her eldest son Dr. Reason.

三十六、月亮把上升主星的光线带给第八宫主，是很坏的，它预示死亡；不过也不是在一切病中都如此；例如在时来时去、一阵一阵发作的病中，如寒热病、癫痫等等就不然。你们可以从中得到这样一个用处：只有与本性夫人和她的长子理性博士交情很深的人，才适合当医生。

37 It is extreame bad when the Moon applies to any star in the eighth, as bad as when she applies to the lord of the eighth himselfe.

三十七、月亮入相第八宫里的任何一颗星，是极坏的，坏得就像她入相第八宫主本身一样。

38 The Moon cumbust in the eighth in Leo, threatens death, sayes my Author; and so the truth is she doth, if she be cumbust in any other house or signe, unlesse she separate from the body of the Sun.

三十八、我的作者说，月亮在第八宫、在狮子而焦伤，预示死亡；实情也确实如此，她若在任何别的宫或星座里焦伤，也是如此，除非她正离开太阳的本体。

39 The disease will appeare little otherwise then the fore-runner of death, if the Moon be in Libra, and Jupiter and Venus in conjunction; he that knowes any thing in Physick that he should know, knows the reason well enough.

三十九、若月亮在天秤，而木星与金星会合，这病看起来就不过是死亡的先驱；凡是懂得医学里他该懂的东西的人，都很清楚其中的道理。

40 The Moon with the Pleiades, and the Aries, or with any other violent fixed star, shewes danger of death.

四十、月亮与昴星团、白羊，或与任何别的暴烈恒星在一起，显示有死亡的危险。

41 The Moon applying to her own Nodes, namely the head and taile of the Dragon is very bad, but not so bad if she separate from them.

四十一、月亮入相她自己的交点，即龙头与龙尾，是很坏的，但若是离开它们，就没那么坏。

42 It is very bad when Saturne is in his Apogeon, or neer it, if the disease come of retention.

四十二、若病出于体液潴留，土星在他的远地点或接近远地点，就很坏。

43 Judge the like by Mars, if the disease be a Feaver, or proceed of choler; and here you have another instructer to teach you knowledge; the neerer a planet is to the earth, the more stoutly will he maintaine and increase the humours he governes.

四十三、若病是热病，或出于胆汁，凭火星也作同样的判断；这里你们又多了一位教你们知识的老师：行星离地球越近，就越强有力地维持、增长他所主管的体液。

44 It is a very bad signe, if not disperate, if there be an Ecclipse of either Luminary upon a criticall day; and if it misse a day of it, it will breake no squares in such a case: the time of the Ecclipse hath to my knowledge anticipated the time of the Crisis a whole day naturall, and proved mortall too, as I have had experience in Essex, in the latter end of October, 1649.

四十四、若在某个危象之日有两光之一的交食，那是一个极坏的征兆，即使不算无望；就算差了一天，在这种情况下也无关紧要：据我所知，交食的时刻曾经把危象的时刻整整提前了一个自然日，而且也致了命，这是我在一六四九年十月底于埃塞克斯亲身经历的。

Thus have I given you the signs of death, by Astrology; I do not say absolutely a man must needs dye when any of these signs appeare; but this I say, the danger of death is much; I advise the Physician to have a care what he doth; let him advise with nature, and her two sons, Doctor Reason, and Doctor Experience; let him have some brains in his head and not all in his books; let the Patient provide for a change, and make his peace with God, and set his house in order, and then hath he the lesse need to care whether he live or dye.

这样，我就把星占学上的死亡之兆告诉你们了；我不是说只要出现这些征兆中的任何一个，人就绝对非死不可；但我要说的是：死亡的危险很大；我劝医生对自己所做的事要谨慎；让他向本性和她的两个儿子理性博士与经验博士求教；让他头脑里有点脑子，而不是全都放在书里；让病人准备迎接变化，同上帝和好，把家事安排妥当，那时他活也好死也好，就不必那么挂心了。

One Chapter of Noel Duryet which is the last, and contains certain observations taken out of Cardanus and other expert Physicians, which at first I intended to translate, but finding them very imperfect, I thought good to forbeare, for wanting an Ephemerides of that age to perfect them my selfe, I thought better to leave them quite out, then trouble this prying age with imperfections.

诺埃尔·迪雷还有一章，是最后一章，载有从卡尔达诺和其他老练的医生那里摘出的若干观察，我起初打算翻译，但发现它们很不完备，就认为还是不译为好；因为我没有那个时代的星历来自己把它们补全，我觉得把它们整个略去，比用残缺不全的东西去烦扰这个爱刨根问底的时代要好。