卷九·第十二至十六章　诸结；婴儿之法；受孕；时辰的分数

XII. On the Bonds.

第十二章　论诸结。

One must observe, when the count falls by degree into a bond, or at the end of the six-degree span, that one makes the addition or subtraction of the years falling due according to the zodiacal arrangement of the instrument. For the comparison of two procedures and methods, if they should give the same periods or ones close to each other, one must examine whether the degrees fall together in the same sign; and in the neighbouring signs they strengthen the substance of the years, if the sacred gnomon falls from day into night or from night into day; for from these the exact degrees of the luminaries will also be graspable.

必须观察，当计数按度数落进一个结，或落在六度一组的末尾时，要按仪表的黄道排列作应得年数的加或减。为了比较两种程序与方法，若它们给出同样的或彼此接近的时期，就必须查看诸度数是否同落在同一个星座；在相邻的星座中，若神圣的晷针从白天落进夜里，或从夜里落进白天，它们就加强年数的根基；因为从这些，两光的精确度数也会变得可以把握。

XIII. Method for the Periods of Life, Active and Inactive, in Relation to the Sun and the Moon.

第十三章　从太阳与月亮求有作为与无作为的生命时期之法。

This too occurred to me concerning the method set out, that is, the one of the 27 years, to append also 24 lunar cycles. When the nativity admits the number, one should work as has been written before; but for the nativities of infants as follows. Making the release from the Moon, give 2 months to each sign, and then up to the lunar application and the trine or square, and then also the casting of rays of the malefics upon an angle, according to the same period of the substance that has come near [text uncertain]. From the solar release give 30 months to each sign; and, as we set out the more detailed division for the lot before, manage it until the period takes on a substance of months or of years.

关于所列的方法，即二十七年那一种，我又想到要再附上二十四个月亮周期。当本命容许这个数时，应照前面所写的去做；但对于婴儿的本命则如下。从月亮作释放，给每个星座两个月，然后直到月亮的入相与三分或四分，然后也直到凶星对一个角的光线投射，按已接近的同一个根基的时期〔原文疑有讹误〕。从太阳的释放，给每个星座三十个月；正如我们先前为福点列出了更细的划分那样，这样处理，直到时期取得以月或以年计的根基。

XIV. On Conception, for the Topic of the Length of Life.

第十四章　论受孕，用于生命长度的题目。

One must also take in this mode, as we made clear earlier in the account of conception: take the Moon by degree at the delivery as the Ascendant of conception, and the hour of the delivery as the Moon of conception; and having recognized the interval of the days of conception, work with the conjunctions and full moons and the other distances; and [lacuna] of the method, the Ascendant of the delivery will agree.

也必须采用这个样式，正如我们先前在受孕的说法中讲明的：把分娩时按度数的月亮当作受孕的上升，把分娩的时辰当作受孕的月亮；得知受孕的日数间隔之后，就要配合合朔、望月与其他的距离来处理；〔此处原文有缺〕方法的，分娩的上升就会相合。

XV. That One Must Fix the Hour of Birth Precisely to the Fraction.

第十五章　必须把出生的时辰精确到分数。

Since the ancient wise man, beloved of the Muses, set up two Strifes, of which the one is warlike and fearful, rejoicing in blood and griefs and death, in battles and envies and harmful causes, and the other industrious and a lover of the beautiful, peaceful, and not repentant of her works because she turns toils into pleasures (and the goddess is good, of whom I too became a lover, wishing to win a victory over those who oppose and the envious through my experience and my mind that loves the beautiful), I was not content to leave the methods written before as a pledge to those who come after and to the lovers of the beautiful, but I found out another powerful one as well and made it clear, so that, having tested in each chapter my ungrudging spirit, with all frankness and with a dignified rivalry they may quench the deadly and slanderous voices of the enemies (for anger nourished by envy and grief withers away, especially when enmities incline toward defeat), and so, having trained themselves eagerly in the treatises composed by us, they may proclaim the blame of the theory turned into praise, knowing that the science possesses delight and pleasure, benefit and blessedness, and wisdom beyond the many. But let us turn our mind to the matter at hand.

既然那位古代的智者、缪斯所爱的人，立了两种争斗，其中一种好战而可怕，以血、悲伤与死亡为乐，以战斗、嫉妒与有害的原因为乐，另一种勤劳而爱美，和平，不后悔自己的作为，因为她把劳苦变为快乐（这位女神是好的，我也成了她的爱慕者，想凭我的经验与爱美的心智胜过反对的人与嫉妒的人），我就不满足于把前面所写的方法留给后来者与爱美的人作为信物，而是又找到另一种有力的方法并把它讲明，好让他们在每一章都试过我的毫不吝惜之后，以全部的坦率与一种庄重的竞争，熄灭敌人致命而毁谤的声音（因为由嫉妒与悲伤养大的怒气会枯萎，尤其当敌意倾向失败时），于是在我们所编写的论著上热心地训练自己，宣告这一理论的受责已转为受赞，知道这门学问拥有愉悦与快乐、益处与福分，以及胜过众人的智慧。但让我们把心思转到眼前的事上。

Taking the interval by degree from the conjunction or full moon to the Moon at the delivery, and subtracting the zodiacal circuit, the whole number of signs, take the remainder as the fraction of the Ascendant, from which the exact degree of the Moon too becomes manifest; and from this the aim of what is sought will be understood, the Sun presiding over the magnitudes of the day and of the hours according to the differences of the climes and the alterations of the periods. Even if what has been said has a concise and very brief exposition, readers must not neglect it or treat it as a side-matter, but track it out with all care and zeal; for most things are taught, as I have found by experience, by necessity, toil, poverty, rivalry, self-control, and desire; having met with these, even if we boast thus, we have failed to arrive at the perfect part of virtue; but some, having stumbled and become notorious, have fared badly, having acquired an empty vainglory from what they undertook. The fraction by itself too possesses an Ascendant power; and otherwise, taking the interval by degree from the conjunction to the Moon by rising time and subtracting a whole number of signs, take the degree at which it ended as the Ascendant. Likewise also from the full moon to the Moon, or, as it seemed to me, from the Moon to the coming conjunction; taking and subtracting thus the whole number of signs, take the degree found as the Ascendant degree; but the force of the years must be completed by first adding or subtracting the equinoctial time-degrees; for adding both gnomons together and taking half, you will find what is continuously sought from the truth and from manifold nature. For of every kind the beginning is single, varied, and hard to grasp, while the tracking out is manifold and varied; and if the interval precisely holds the grasp, it also reveals the period as single. Hence, my most honoured Marcus, since you know the arithmetical construction of tables and the methods of the treatises, which you have tested through deeds and words and through the teachings received from me, bringing in besides from your own nature the faculty of blending, take care to carry out the workings with all precision; for, travelling among the many nations and climes of the inhabited world and giving demonstrations, you would deem me worthy of everlasting fame, and you yourself will be glorified among many as worthy of the heavenly theory, and, having been grounded beforehand in the abundance of learning, you will arrive at the rank of the writers of treatises; for you have nature, toil, and self-control, and, having obtained a dignified and sacred entry, you have gained an enlightened initiation. This I urge you to guard through the oaths written before, and not to be carried away in rivalry toward the unworthy or the uninitiated; for it is better for you to be defeated in silence than to be impious toward divine things by winning.

按度数取从合朔或望月到分娩时月亮的间隔，减去黄道的整圈，即整数个星座，把余数当作上升的分数，从这里月亮的精确度数也变得明显；从这里所求的目标就会被理解，太阳按诸气候带的差别与诸时期的变化，主管白昼与时辰的大小。即使所说的有一个简洁而非常简短的阐述，读者也不可忽略它或把它当作附带之事，而要以全部的用心与热忱追踪它；因为大多数东西，正如我凭经验所发现的，是由必需、劳苦、贫穷、竞争、自制与渴望教会的；遇到了这些，即使我们这样夸口，我们也没能到达德性的完美部分；但有些人跌倒、出了恶名，遭遇不幸，从他们所从事的事上获得了空洞的虚荣。分数本身也有上升的力量；另外，按上升时间取从合朔到月亮按度数的间隔，减去整数个星座，把它终止的那一度当作上升。同样也从望月到月亮，或者，按我的看法，从月亮到即将到来的合朔；这样取了、减去整数个星座之后，把找到的度数当作上升度数；但年数的力量必须先加上或减去赤道时度才算完成；因为把两个晷针加在一起取一半，你就会找到从真理与多样的自然中持续寻求的东西。因为每一种类的开端都是单一、多样而难以把握的，而追踪则是多方面而多样的；若间隔精确地抓住要领，它也会显示时期是单一的。因此，我最尊敬的马可斯，既然你懂得诸表的算术构造与论著的方法，你借着行与言、借着从我所受的教导检验过它们，又从你自己的天性中带进混合的能力，就要留意以全部的精确完成这些运算；因为你走遍有人居住之世的许多民族与气候带，作出演示，就会认为我配得永久的名声，你自己也会在许多人中被荣耀为配得天上理论的人，又因预先扎根于丰富的学问，将升到论著作者的品级；因为你有天性、劳苦与自制，又得了庄重而神圣的入门，获得了光照的启蒙。这一点我劝你凭前面所写的誓言守住，不要在与不配者或未入门者的竞争中被带着走；因为你在沉默中被打败，胜过在胜利中对神圣之事不敬。

XVI. Method for the Length of Life in Relation to the Sun and the Moon.

第十六章　从太阳与月亮求生命长度之法。

Having once now fought through many contests and fallen in with countless toils, guided by my desire and my rivalry against my opponents, and expecting that I had already gained possession of the questions and was about to bring my writing to an end, like a good athlete at the sacred contest, the spectacle of the Olympic games, I turned my mind back again on account of the manifold operations of nature; for he who leads and lifts up into the light [text uncertain] possesses honour and everlasting glory, and, turning his former toils into pleasure and delight, strengthens his power and proves his actions and dismisses idle talk, and makes his enemies friends and sympathizers even against their will, and embraces many admirers.

我曾经历过许多竞赛，遇到无数劳苦，被我的渴望与对反对者的竞争引导着，以为自己已经掌握了这些问题、将要结束我的写作，就像一个在神圣竞技、奥林匹亚赛会的观场上的好运动员，却因自然多方面的运作，又把心思转了回来；因为那引导人、把人举到光中的〔原文疑有讹误〕，拥有荣誉与永久的荣耀，把他先前的劳苦转为快乐与愉悦，加强他的力量，证明他的作为，打发闲谈，使他的敌人即使不情愿也成为朋友与同情者，并拥抱许多仰慕者。

Hence we must go again to the rulers of the cosmos, the Sun and the Moon. Having calculated them by degree by rising time according to the magnitude and the clime, one must subtract whole cycles of signs and take the remaining degree as powerful, and also its partner, which the equinoctial will show. Four degrees in all will be productive, and of the 4, again, 2 will be left as strong. Sometimes, then, 5 places too will be productive, or again 2; and one must examine the Ascendant and the signs on either side of it. For from these too the productive degrees, when reckoned, give the periods, especially when the Ascendant seems to be in error; or else use one gnomon for the sign in the Ascendant, and the other [text uncertain] signifies at degree 16 one thirtieth. One must also bear in mind the differences of the climes; for often some place or nation that seems to have the beginning or the end of a parallel properly belongs to the region of another, or is split into 2 parallels, and seems to go astray in the period by addition or subtraction; and besides, as some of those devoted to such matters suppose, they have produced differing geographies; but the theory and the method are sacred and unfailing for those who have intelligence.

因此我们必须再到宇宙的主宰太阳与月亮那里去。按大小与气候带，按上升时间把它们按度数算出之后，必须减去整圈的星座，把剩下的那一度当作有力的，也当作它的伙伴，即分点所显示的那一度。总共会有四度得力，在四度之中，又会剩下两度是强的。所以有时也会有五个位置得力，或又只有两个；必须查看上升点以及它两边的星座。因为从这些算出的得力度数也给出时期，尤其当上升看来有差错时；或者为上升的星座用一个晷针，而另一个〔原文疑有讹误〕在第十六度表示三十分之一。也必须记住诸气候带的差别；因为常常有某个地方或民族，看来在一条纬线的开头或末尾，其实严格说来属于另一条的地区，或被分在两条纬线之间，在时期上就似乎因加或减而走错；此外，正如一些致力于这类事的人所认为的，他们得到的地理描述各不相同；但对有悟性的人，这理论与方法是神圣而不会失误的。