PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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في زمان واحد ‘simultaneously’

Arabic

References: Alm. MS Leiden: f. 14v. – Alm. MS Tunis: 19b.23
Translation of:
Greek: ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ [Alm. Heiberg: II.2, 90:20-21]