PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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the situation of the universe ‘the situation of the universe’

English

References: Alm. Toomer: 75
Translation of:
Greek: ἡ τῶν ὅλων σχέσις [Alm. Heiberg: II.1, 87:15]