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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 101

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dos, pestiferos et tabificos, fulminum iaculationes, turbines, siccitates. In mari vero, subita naufragia, propter flatus turbulentos et fulmina et similes causas; in fluminibus vero aquas exorbet, fontes desiccat et lymphas corrumpit. Frumenta et res terra nascentes diminuit et vel propter aestus antequam invehuntur, vel invectas incendiis perdit. Venus cum sola dominatur, generaliter similia Iovi efficit cum venustate quadam; peculiariter vero hominibus gloriam, honores, laeticiam, ubertatem annorum, placida coniugia, numerosam sobolem, gratiam in amicitiis et congressibus, incrementa facultatum, mundiciem in victu, comitatem, reverentiam religionum tribuit. Praeterea et bonum habitum corporis et familiaritatem cum principibus, in aere vero, temperatos ventos, humidas et foecundas constitutiones, bonam tempestatem et serenitatem, foecundos imbres, navigationes felices et lucrosas, fluminum exundationes,