Chapter XXIV.—Type of Those Born Under Capricorn.
Those born in Capricorn will be of the following description: reddish body, projection of greyish hair, round mouth,211 Or, “body.” eyes as of an eagle, contracted brows, open forehead, somewhat bald, in the upper parts of the body endued with more strength. The same by nature are philosophic, scorners, and scoffers at the existing state of things, passionate, persons that can make concessions, honourable, beneficent, lovers of the practice of music, passionate in their cups, mirthful, familiar, talkative, given to unnatural lusts, genial, amiable, quarrelsome lovers, for fellowship well disposed.
[24] Ἐν Αἰγοκέρῳ τύπος: σώματι ὑποπύρρῳ, τριχὶ ὑποπολίῳ, προαλεῖ στόματι στρογγύλῳ, ὀφθαλμοῖς ὡς ἀετοῦ, ὀφρύσι συντεθειμέναις, μετώπῳ ἠνοιγμένῳ, ὑποφάλακροι, τὰ ὑποκάτω μέρη τοῦ σώματος ἰσχυρότεροι. οἱ αὐτοὶ φύσεως: φιλόσοφοι, καταφρονηταὶ καὶ τὸ παρὸν καταγελασταί, [ὀργίλοι,] συγχωρηταί, καλοί, ἀγαθοποιοί, πράγματος μουσικοῦ φιληταί, ἐν οἴνῳ ὀργίλοι, γελοῖοι, συνήθεις, λάλοι, παιδερασταί, ἱλαροί, προσφιλεῖς, φιληταί, ἐρεθίζοντες, [εἰς φιλίαν ἄχρηστοι,] εἰς κοινωνίαν εὔχρηστοι.