PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 4r

Facsimile
rona matutino occultatur, aquarum de coelo pluvies.
VIII
Marinae Aves apparere incipiunt, Aquilo et Septentriones flant, principium veris est, Sol Piscium dimidium obtinet, Equus occidit.
VII
Miluus apparere incipit, flat Auster, Piscisque in tergore matutino occultari incipit.
VI
Equus occidit matutino, Miluus a sublimi deorsum vergit, vindemitor occidit, Arcturus autem emergit et gelidus flat Aquilo.
V
Hyemis abscessio et Aquilonis ad Septentriones commutatio.
IIII
Desinit Piscis a tergore elevari, Septentrio vel Auster flat.
III
Argo Navis emergit vesperi, Favonius et Auster flant, et in Leonis cauda hyemat dies.
Pr.
Aquilo per totum flat diem.
Id.
Equus occidit et Aquilo flat gelidus.
XVII
Sol in Ariete, Favonius late spirat, Ciconia apparet et mare transmittit.
XVI
Inconstantes venti, Aquilo spirat.
XV
Auster flat, Miluus diluculo apparet.
XIIII
Aquilo serenus spirat.
XIII
Equus occidit matutino, Aquilo vel Septentrio flat.
XII
Aries in latus emergit, pluit aut ningit.
XI
Cancer tergore oritur, Auster flat.