Chapter XVIII.—Type of Those Born Under Cancer.
Those born in Cancer are of the following description: size not large, hair like a dog, of a reddish colour, small mouth, round head, pointed forehead, grey eyes, sufficiently beautiful, limbs somewhat varying. The same by nature are wicked, crafty, proficients in plans, insatiable, stingy, ungracious, illiberal, useless, forgetful; they neither restore what is another’s, nor do they ask back what is their own;200 Manilius maintains that persons born under Cancer are of an avaricious and usurious disposition. (See Astronom., iv. 5.) as regards friendship, useful.
[18] Ἐν Καρκίνῳ τύπος: μεγέθει οὐ μεγάλῳ, τριχὶ ὥσπερ κυνείᾳ, χρώματι ὑποπύρρῳ, στόματι ὀλίγῳ, κεφαλῇ στρογγύλῃ, μετώπῳ ὀξεῖ, ὀφθαλμοῖς ὑπογλαύκοις, ἱκανῶς καλοῖς, μέλεσιν ὑποποικίλοις. οἱ αὐτοὶ φύσεως: κακοί, δόλιοι, βουλαῖς κατηρτισμένοι, ἄπληστοι, φειδωλοί, ἀχάριστοι, ἀνελεύθεροι, ἀνωφελεῖς, ἀμνήμονες, οὔτε ἀποδιδόασιν ἀλλότριον οὔτε ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἴδιον, εἰς φιλίαν [οὐκ] ὠφέλιμοι.