Links to translation of Dorotheus: Carmen Astrologicum, by e. Dorotheus of Sidon, who appears to have lived in Alexandria, flourished in the first century AD. He wrote his Pentateuch (five books) on. CARMEN ASTROLOGICUM. translated by David Pingree. The first book of Dorotheus from the stars on the judgments concerning nativities: on the upbringing.

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Knowledge of the death of the parents of the native one of the two before his companion The name field is required. If you find the lot in the twelfth or the sixth while Saturn aspects, then it indicates the death of the children.
Aspect of the planets from sextile If you find the lord of the triplicity above the earth, then count from the ascendant to it, and the rest of the consideration is as I wrote for you; he who considers [correctly] is a master.
If you find its lord in a good place, it indicates the good of his father, and the condition of his father is known by means of the fate of its [the lord’s] location. If you find the lot of property in a good place and its lord also in [something] like this [and] eastern, then what it indicates will last for a long time. If you find the lord of the triplicity of Venus in the cardine of the West or the cardine under the earth, it indicates the death of his women.
See, when a native is born, which [planet] will reach the ascendant after his birth or the place of the Moon, as from this planet the matter of fortune and his property and what its extent is will be clear to you. The buying of animals If you find the Moon and the Sun both injured, he departs from his house learning from his parents who they are.
If you find the lords of the triplicity of Venus with it or in the cardines or what follows the cardines, rejoicing in their light and direct in [their] motion, all of this is a good indication in the matter of marriage so that the father of the child was happy.
Arrival of Mars in the places Count from the degrees of Saturn to Venus and add to it the degrees of the ascendent [by day] or subtract it thirty at a time from the ascendent [by night]; wherever it reaches, then there is the lot of wedding. If with this the malefic aspects the Sun, you will find illness, putrefaction in his father.
But even if he leaves his parents as the planets indicate, yet he will inherit their property because in bad nativities if Jupiter is in such a place, the injury becomes insignificant and the misfortunes dissolve; even if he does not attain a good livelihood, yet he will achieve something because of the position of Jupiter.
Dorothei Sidonii Carmen astrologicum
If the lot happens to be where none of the planets is in quartile or opposition to it, then these [natives] have a need for children. The time of the wedding: Look concerning one who will see the death of his brothers, look at these two lots, and count from the degree of the lot to the astrologcium to which Saturn casts its rays in quartile or opposition or presence, as according to this the native will see the death of his brother, especially if Mars aspects or is stationary in this place.
Catmen a review Rate this item: But if you find the benefics aspecting the Sun and Saturn or the Sun alone, then he will inherit his father’s property and will hold on to it. From it [the lord] is also known the character of the father. If Jupiter aspects Venus from the tenth or eighth and you find Venus in the twelfth or sixth, then the native will marry a good woman, but she will die, and fear and weeping and anxiety will reach him because of her.

Always if you find Venus in nativities of men or of women in a bad place, then it indicates a disgraceful marriage. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. You look at these two signs [and] which [planet] aspects them.
Know that the best of things with regard to fortune is that the lord of the triplicity of the luminary be astropogicum a good place with the Moon or in opposition to it or quartile or trine.
Now I will make the whole [of it] clear to you. But if you find the lord of the lot rejoicing in its light, aspecting its own place while the benefics aspect it, and its place is strong in a cardine or what follows a cardine, then this astroligicum will marry a good woman with no blemish in her, virtuous, praiseworthy in this, and he will be noble in his condition and his benefit.
Dorotheus of Sidon CARMEN ASTROLOGICUM translated by David Pingree | Denis French –
Conrad Drecc rated it really liked it Dec 18, astrollgicum The first book is on the judgement of nativities. Knowledge of the death of the parents of the native, one of the two before his companion.

If it is Mars, then it indicates women who will marry [several] men in succession and will play the whore with men. If you find the Sun and Mercury and the Moon in cardines or you find the Sun and the Moon in one [and the same] triplicity, they indicate manumission. Knowledge of the masculine and feminine “hours” of the nativity. If you find the Moon at the end of a sign and in the aspect of Saturn or Mars, it indicates that the native sometimes is cast out [aborted] and sometimes [his] birth is hard.
