PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Isaac Argyros, 〈Paraphrasis in Anonymum commentum in Quadripartitum〉

Madrid, UC-BH, cod. 122 · 68v

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aut legum per tempora variationis iuxta stellarum commixtionem, que frequenter efficitur. Quo ad aeris vero statum cum magis sit exsiccativus et mobilis propter propinquitatem quam habet ad Solem et retrocessiones circulationis celeritatem ventos precipue movet ⟨…⟩ ἀτάκτων (from ἄτακτος: disorderly) is left untranslated; Hübner p. 142, l. 795 et acutos ac facile mutabiles tonitruumque et presterum hiatuum terremotuum ac fulgurum iure est effector. In animalibus preterea ac plantis, que usui apta sunt, corruptionem his de causis operatur; aquarumque ac fluminum cum est occidentalis minutionem facit, cum vero est orientalis augmentum.

Particulariter igitur cum planeta quilibet in sua fuerit natura huiusmodi res operatur. Alius vero cum alio commixtus secundum figurationes