卷五·第一章　卷首：五卷的来历与直升斜升星座

The Fifth Book of Dorotheus, on Questions.

多罗修斯第五卷：论问事。

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate; my success comes only through God the Mighty.

奉至仁至慈的真主之名；我的成功只凭伟大的真主。

I.

第一章

[1] This is the book of Dorotheus, king of Egypt.

[1] 这是埃及王多罗修斯的书。

[2] It is five books: he composed four of them on nativities, in which he mentioned every good and evil, hardship or ease, that befalls people from the beginning of their affairs to the end; and he composed one of them on the matter of inceptions, and that is this book, which is called the fifth book.

[2] 全书五卷：其中四卷论诞生盘，讲人从起头到终了所遭遇的一切吉凶、困厄与顺遂；另一卷论起事（择时），就是本卷，称为第五卷。

In it he mentioned the condition of every work that anyone begins, whether deliberately or not, what becomes of the beginning of that work, its middle, and its end, and what good or evil enters into it.

书中讲任何人开始做的每一件事——不论有意无意——其开头、中段、结局会怎样，其中会掺进什么吉凶。

[3] He mentioned in his book that he follows the traces of the learned men who have passed away, the learned of Babylon and Egypt, for they were the first to look into the science of the stars and its reckoning, the revolution of the sphere, the courses of the seven planets, and the risings of the twelve signs; and he extracted this from their books.

[3] 他在书中说，他追随已故学者——巴比伦与埃及的学者——的遗迹，因为是他们最先研究星学及其推算、天球的运转、七星的行程、十二星座的上升；他从他们的书中辑出了这部书。

Then he made a comparison for himself in following them. [4] He said that, as he looked into what they had treated and arranged of the science of the stars, he followed the best of their knowledge, the most correct, the clearest, and the most comprehensive, and extracted it from their books; and he likened himself, in following their traces and composing this book, to the bee, which seeks out the sweetest and best of the fruits and makes honey from them.

然后他为自己的追随打了个比方。[4] 他说，他考察他们在星学上所处理、所安排的东西，取其中最好、最正确、最清楚、最完备的，从他们书中辑出；他把自己追随前人、编成这部书，比作蜜蜂——寻取最甜最好的果实，从中酿出蜂蜜。

Then he began, and set down for this book a comprehensive introduction, in which he mentioned the power of the seven and the twelve, their soundness and their corruption.

然后他开始动笔，为本书写了一篇总括的引论，讲七星与十二宫的力量、它们的吉善与败坏。

[5] He said: At the inception of every matter that anyone wishes, look at the signs of straight rising and of crooked rising, at the tropical and the bicorporeal signs, and at the place of the planet that is in the Ascendant at the inception of every work, to see whether its end will be good or bad.

[5] 他说：任何人想办的任何事，在起事时，都要看直升星座与斜升星座、回归星座与双体星座，以及起事时位于上升的那颗星的位置，以判断这件事的结局是好是坏。

[6] For you must first learn the nature of the signs of straight rising and of crooked rising.

[6] 所以你首先要知道直升星座与斜升星座的性质。

[7] I shall explain to you which of them are straight and which are crooked.

[7] 我来给你说明哪些是直升的，哪些是斜升的。

[8] The straight ones are Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, because each of these six rises in two hours and part of an hour of the hāwandrūz hours, that is, in more than thirty time-degrees; these are the hours in which night and day are equal, the length of each hour being fifteen degrees.

[8] 直升的是巨蟹、狮子、处女、天秤、天蝎、射手，因为这六个星座每一个都要用两个多小时才升完——按「平分时」（哈万德鲁兹时）计，即超过三十时度；平分时就是昼夜等长时的小时，每小时长十五度。

[9] The crooked ones are Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini, because each of these six rises in less than two of the hāwandrūz hours, that is, in fewer than thirty time-degrees.

[9] 斜升的是摩羯、水瓶、双鱼、白羊、金牛、双子，因为这六个星座每一个不到两个平分时就升完，即不足三十时度。