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Hephaistion of Thebes' Apotelesmatic (5th Century AD) is an important record of ancient doctrines on general principles, natal, and electional astrology, largely drawn from the work of Ptolemy and Dorotheus.
赫菲斯遜底比斯占星文鑑（公元5世紀）是一份大量從托勒密(Ptolemy)及多羅修斯(Dorotheus)的作品中得到關於古時的學說原理之準則、本命及擇日占星學的重要紀錄。
Book III: On Inceptions focuses on inception charts taken broadly: elections, thought-interpretation and analysis, event charts, and even proto-horary questions. In addition to lengthy instructions on crafting strong elections, typical inceptions include forming business deals, getting married, finding lost property, founding cities, farming, asking for favors, travel, surgery and medical treatment, and even the astrological reading of entrails. Event charts include analyzing the truth of rumors, the return of missing spouses, and more,. Hephaistion also includes thought-interpretation techniques, using twelfth-parts and other methods.
本書『Book III: On Inceptions』著重於：擇日盤、觀點詮譯和分析，事件盤，甚至是最初時的卜卦占星的的問題。除了長篇說明關於精巧地製作欲強調的選擇(擇日)議題、典型的初始盤，如：生意買賣、結婚、尋回失物、創建城市、農耕、請求協助、旅遊、手術和藥物治療，還有其它更深入的事件占星讀解。而事件盤包括分析流言的真實度、尋回失踪的配偶及…等等。赫菲斯遜底比斯占星文鑑也包括觀點詮譯的技巧、運用十二個宮位及其它等等的方法。
Hephaistion of Thebes is also the most important source of authentic Greek verses of Dorotheus, complementing the Arabic translation by "Umar al-Tabari. This edition includes numerous Dorothean Excerpts and Fragments identified by Pingree and others, which supplement and enhance the material in Hephaistion. Along with Choices & Inceptions: Traditional Electional Astrology (2012), hephaistion's Book III provides the most complete picture of Hellenistic and medieval inceptional astrology.
赫菲斯遜底比斯占星文鑑也是正宗的希臘多羅修斯(Dorotheus)的詩句集，補充了由烏瑪-歐爾-塔巴里(Umar al-Tabari)所著的阿拉伯譯本之重要來源。該版本包括許多經由平格里及其它人的認證確實為多羅修斯的摘錄及不完整句子，這更加補足及增加赫菲斯遜底比斯占星文鑑的資料題材。隨著2012年所出版的『Choices & Inceptions: Traditional Electional Astrology《選擇與初始意念：傳統擇日占星學』，赫菲斯遜第三冊提供希臘時期和中世紀占星術最完整的原貌。
註1：apotelesmatic (adjective) Ap`o`tel`es`mat´ic
- Definition of apotelesmatic：of or relating to the casting of horoscopesarchaic
- Origin of apotelesmatic：Greek apotelesmatikos, productive, astrologically influential, from apotelesmat-, apotelesma + -ikos -ic
- Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
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Relating to an issue of fulfillment.
In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment.
- M. Stuart. - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apotelesmatic
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Apotelesmatic
註2：赫菲斯遜底比斯占星文鑑是米娜取的名字，不然實在是不曉得要怎麼叫它…呃。
註3：書籍購買亞馬遜amazon網址短址：http://tinyw.in/5RMx
譯者：mina米娜
2015年12月22日(二) 05:03A.M. Taipei
希臘擇日占星學的重要來源由"mina米娜"製作，以創用CC 姓名標示-非商業性 4.0 國際 授權條款釋出。
此作品衍生自http://phoenix-astro.blogspot.tw/2015/12/a-key-source-of-hellenistic-electional.html。
