Hi Paul, First, I’d like to thank you for responding to (some of) my questions, which I wanted to address to any readers regardless of their background. As a matter of fact, a few of my questions were intended to check whether other, native or (like me) non-native, speakers of English will understan...

thanks levente laszlo, i appreciate all the work you've done here and more generally... i with hold comment on all of this, but i appreciate and have read all your state here... i don't know if and when martin will find time to respond, but i am curious on it all.. cheers james Thank you, James! I ...

16/16 My real concerns with your paper Finally, I must confess that my main concern with your paper is not that I find all your major conclusions wrong. It is something entirely different. I believe that the essence of science is the quest for truth; therefore, good scholarly practice is incessantl...

15/16 Valens’s references to a place division other than by whole signs As the division introduced in III 2 but then never used—just like the hybrid nocturnal formula introduced in III 11 but then never used—can be barely seen as the introduction of quadrant places (sections 13–14), which are also ...

14/16 Your treatment of Valens III 2,15–20 – your translation and interpretation In relation to Valens III 2,15–20, which you cite and translate on pp. 10–11, you state (p. 10), “quadrant places […] are referred to using the same standard nomenclature.??? Your translation seems to confirm this. How...

13/16 Your treatment of Valens III 2,15–20 – the context In light of sections 11–12, your statement (p. 9), “[q]uadrant places and angles are […] explicitly used in several sections of the work??? of Valens, does not seem entirely correct: angles calculated by degree are referenced and used in seve...

12/16 Your supporting evidence for the presence of quadrant places in Valens – V 6,65–73 The only piece of evidence that suggests Valens’s use of quadrant places is his Sonderlehre in V 6,66–69, which you cite and analyze together with the preceding sentence (V 6,65) on pp. 28–31, and its accompany...

11/16 Your supporting evidence for the presence of quadrant places in Valens – II 6,1; II 17,89; VIII 9,5–6; and VII 6,111–114 One of the main theses of your paper is portraying whole-sign places as an inferior, approximate method that is never really defined and is never advocated. Consequently, y...

10/16 The missing analysis of the horoscopic evidence – the attested place division methods in Valens’s elaborate horoscopes In the case of the elaborate horoscopes, we are not very fortunate: although there are various partial examples calculated by degree in Valens’s Books I, III, and VIII, no re...

9/16 The missing analysis of the horoscopic evidence – the attested place division methods in Valens’s basic horoscopes Although the places are referred to in dozens of horoscopic examples—Valens providing more than half of them—dated earlier than the 5th century, the vast majority consists of basi...

8/16 The missing analysis of the horoscopic evidence – the calculation of basic horoscopes in Valens Although you have some passing remarks on the horoscopic evidence in Valens and elsewhere, and you also cite a few horoscopes, you provide analyses only for ones by which you intend to confirm your ...

7/16 Your portrayal of the definitions of the whole-sign places On p. 12, you state, “whole-sign places are never formally defined in the surviving ancient manuals of astrology.??? I find this statement vague, restrictive, and not even true. I do not know what you mean by “formal definition,??? but...