374^ ON THE INDIAN-, &C. 



Manilius says * 



Quam partem decimam dixere Decania gentesj 

 A numero nomen positum est, quod partibus astra 

 Condita tricenis propria sub sorte feruntur, 

 Et tribuunt denas in se coeuntibus astiis, 

 Inque vicem teiris habitantur sidera Signis. 



Heph.estion expressly declares -f-, that '^ each sign 

 of the Zodiack is divided into three Decani comprising 

 ten degrees each : the first division of Aries is named 

 Chontare ; the second Chontachre^ and the third SiceL'* 



FiRMicus differs in the names, and does not allow 

 ten complete degrees to each Decanus. Thus, in the 

 sign Aries, the three first degrees are, according to 

 him, unappropriated ; the five next belong to the first 

 Decanus Asitan, the next nine are vacant ; and the four 

 following appertain to the second Decanus Senacher : 

 five degrees are again unoccupied ; and the four lagt 

 belong to the third Decanus Sentacher \, 



We learn from Psellus§. that the several Decani 

 were figured with difierent attributes and dresses ; and, 

 from Demophilus and Firmicus|| that they repre- 

 sented the planets. The first appertained to Mars ; 



* Lib. 4. 298-^302. 



I Salmasii Plin. Exerc. p, 653. 



§ Ektj' yap £v f'xaVw tuv Pu}§lu}V TpcK y.xliiXsyiJ>svoi hxxvoi^ 



TKr|u,i^of itiici<ry,(x. uv fi' rci iiS'n >^ roc (7p^n,ua7a axurvKiui]/ 

 tyyXuif/fif iTCpsv^ouatg ccTroTpoTraicc Ssivxu ^avricfxai. Taura 

 f*£V ov^ oTivKpo; xar' vauvov wepit]oi r% (XBrsu^oc, 



II piimum zj^oa-ccTTov est is planeta cujussignum est : secundum 

 Tss-poa-uiirov planeta scquens : et sic deinceps. Aries est Martis pri- 

 murn Ts-poau-rroi^, secundum Solis, tertium Veneris, juxta series 

 frrantium. This agrees precisely with the Arabian ^:^m 



