And not able to endure the wars of the raging procurers, she dies, conquered by the labors of lust.
Behold, the bearded one, fierce in his cruelty, pierces the breast of his mother with a sword—O, unspeakable crime!
And the nurse, looking upon her sweet foster-child, laments him crushed, his temples against the grim marbles.
The priest also dies in the midst of the temples, like a sacrificial victim, while he performs sacred rites to the gods above.
These, wretched mortals, are the sad deaths that the harmful star of warlike Mars prepares for you.

Concerning the sign of the great orb, the divider, and the degree of division.

Chapter one.

It has always been my policy in publishing prophecies not to omit certain great conjunctions, which are like universal causes by which the events of future things are more easily detected. I thought this was appropriate to do, because in natural things, following the learning of Aristotle—both in the first book of Physics and in the second of On the Heavens original: "perigeneos" likely a corruption or variant for "de caelo"—it is observed primarily that one proceeds from the universal, as being more known, to the particular, which are less known. But because it would be vicious and tiresome to repeat that one thing so often, I omit these complexes of the planets for the present, yet I shall by no means keep silent about the Moon of the great orb, which is now revolving in the thirteenth [degree], its sign being Leo, the Sun as the divider, and finally the sixteenth degree of Scorpio as the degree of division.

Concerning the governors of the year.

Chapter two.

Imitating the excellent and clear opinion of Ptolemy, prince of astrologers, we assert that this year is disposed and governed by the happy dominion of Jupiter. And not unjustly: for it holds dignities where the Sun is diametrically opposed to the Moon, and in the angle of the mid-heaven, which, according to Ptolemy, far exceeds the ascendant in strength. We also judge Venus and Mercury, who claim much authority for themselves, to be participants in this rule. Who, therefore, of the astrologers would be so lacking in letters and unskilled as not to affirm that this year would be most fortunate for all mortals, if that cruel and horrible eclipse, which happened on the 16th day of March, 1485, at the 22nd hour, over the fifth part of Aries, with the 20th degree of Virgo also rising, did not disturb and pollute these joys and pleasures in a wondrous way?

Concerning the completion of the whole year.

Chapter three.

The winter, whose beginning is the Sun first entering the minute of Aries...