PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 6r

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IIII
Auster vehemens flat.
III
Vergiliae exoriuntur, imbres cum tonitribus fiunt.
Pr.
Tempestas aspera, hyemat aer, ingentia vesperi tonitrua commoventur.

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⟨6⟩ Iunius

K.
Suculae totae emergunt, Auster flat.
IIII
Aquila exoritur, aeris tempestas, et flat Favonius.
III
Australes procellae cum tonitruis.
Pr.
Auster flat, et pluit.
Non.
Aquilo exoritur, flat Auster, et pluit.
VIII
Aquilo flat, et pluit.
VII
Arcturus occidit matutino, Favonius spirat.
VI
Delphinus emergere incipit, Arcturus occidit.
V
Aquilo flat, et modice pluit.
IIII
Pluviosus aer cum tonitruis, et australis dies.
III
Turbulentum coelum cum tonitruis.
Pr.
Favonius vel Corus flat, et tonat.
Id.
Delphinus emergit, Auster flat.
XVIII
Orionis numeri elevantur, et principia aestatis.
XVII
Obscurum astrum, favonius et Auster flant.
XVI
Aeris tempestas et Aquilonii flatus.
XV
Favonius cum Austro spirat, Orionis numeri apparent.
XIIII
Sol in Cancro, Orion exoritur matutino.