[ad. L. *centiloquium, f. centum + loqui to speak.] Name of a work attributed to Ptolemy, consisting of a hundred aphorisms of astrology.
1588. J[ohn] H[arvey], Disc. Probleme, 113. This is the true … doctrine of Ptolomey as may appear … by his Aphoristicall Centiloquie.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. iii. I. iii. 242. Ptolomeus in his centiloquy … attributes all these symptomes which are in melancholy men to celestiall influences.
1635. Person, Varieties, II. 69. Hali the Jew his commentary, upon the centiloquy of Ptolomee.
