PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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ὡριαίοι χρόνοι‘length of the hour in time degrees’

Greek

References: Alm. Heiberg: II.9, 144:9
Translated into:
Arabic: أزمان الساعات [Alm. MS Tunis: 31a.24-25]
Arabic: عدد أزمان الساعة [Alm. MS Leiden: f. 24v.29]
Modern translations:
English: length of the hour in time degrees [Alm. Toomer: 104]