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Ea autem signa cum sint numero XII partesque duodecumas singula possideant mundi versenturque ab oriente ad occidentem continenter, tunc per ea signa contrario cursu luna, stella Mercurii, Veneris, ipse sol itemque Martis et Iovis et Saturni ut per graduum ascensionem percurrentes alius alia circumitionis magnitudine ab occidente ad orientem in mundo pervagantur. luna die octavo et vicesimo et amplius circiter hora caeli circumitionem percurrens, ex quo signo coeperit ire, ad id signum revertendo perficit lunarem mensem.
Vitruvius Pollio. On Architecture. F. Krohn. Lipsiae. B.G. Teubner. 1912.
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