PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Socerus, 1516 · 7r

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VI
Etesiarum Prodromi flatus spirant.
V
Imbres cum tonitribus, flat Aquilo.
IIII
Orion totus oritur matutino et Prodromi invalescunt flatus.
III
Africus flat turbulentus.
Pr.
Aquilo flat.
Id.
Canicula exoritur, Etesiae invalescunt.
XVII
Orion exoritur et violentus flat Aquilo.
XVI
Aestatis dimidium et dies Aquilonis flatu algentior.
XV
Favonius et interdum Auster spirant, Canis oritur matutino et Etesiae amplius invalescunt.
XIIII
Orion exoritur, Corus flat, totusque apparet Orion.
XIII
Sol in Leone, Corus spirat et Canis exoritur.
XII
Etesiae cum aliis ventis per unum et viginti flant dies.
XI
Prodromi flatus late spirant.
X
Cancer totus cum Leone exoritur et Aquila occidit.
IX
Leo cum Sole exoritur et Cane, Cancer descendit.
VIII
Gemini occidere incipiunt, Canis emergit et austrini sunt flatus.
VII
Caligo arenosa, Aquila occidit, Leo exoritur, flat Auster.
VI
Canicularis aestus.
V
Vehementes calores, Etesiae valenter spirant.
IIII
Lucida stella in Leonis pectore exoritur, A