PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Ptolemy, Inerrantium stellarum significationes

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

Facsimile
quilo egelidus propter aestum.
III
Autumnales fructus apparere incipiunt, Aquila occidit matutino, aerque turbidus fit.
Pr.
Auster cum Africo simul spirant.

XXXI

⟨8⟩ Augustus

K.
Aquila occidit matutino, flat Africus, arentes sunt aestus.
IIII
Aquila occidit, aer austrinus.
III
Austrina dies.
Pr.
Leonis medium exoritur, Arbor in hoc biduo apparet, Auster nimbosus vehementer flat.
Non.
Corona ocidit, Leonis medium exoritur, vehemens flat Auster et Grues apparent.
VIII
Fidicula contrahitur, austrina dies aestuosa.
VII
Orionis medium occultatur et dies ab Austro caliginosus et aestuosus.
VI
Leo exoritur, aestus intolerabilis, nebulosus aer, Orionis exoritur medium.
V
Obscurum astrum, Septentrio lenis spirat, aestus mediocris.
IIII
Lunaris defectus in hanc diem incurrere solet, Auster et Aquilo spirant et calores sunt ingentes.
III
Fidicula occidit matutino, autumnus inchoat, ventorum concursus fit.
Pr.
Ventorum conflictus, et pugna.