PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Isaac Argyros, 〈Paraphrasis in Anonymum commentum in Quadripartitum〉

Madrid, UC-BH, cod. 122 · 94r

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id quod ex diversarum naturarum commixtione fuerit collectum diligenter considerabimus; quando autem eorum quilibet particulariter distaverit secundum propria tempora accidentia consimilia dividentes, prioribus quidem matutinis magis, posterioribus autem vespertinis.

Necesse enim est stellam quesito loco ab initio assimilari circa quem aliquid est operatura ab initio assimilari; quoniam si hoc non acciderit, nihil potest universaliter stella illa disponere ea que omnino cum principio nullam habet societatem; temporis autem even apotelesmatis eventus non est causa prima despotia, sed dominatoris distantia ad Solem et ad mundi angulos.