CENTILOQUIUM, a collection of a hundred sentences, opinions, or sayings. The centiloquium of Hermes contains a hundred aphorisms, or astrological sentences, supposed to have been written by some Arab, and falsely ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus. The famous centiloquium of Ptolemy consists likewise of a hundred sentences or doctrines, divided into short aphorisms, entitled also in Greek kapros, as being the fruit or result of the former writings of that celebrated astronomer, namely his Quadripartitum and Almagestum; or rather because the use of astrological calculations is therein explained.
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