Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 20.3.4

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[4] Ad summam tum sol occultatur, splendore suppresso, cum ipse et lunaris globus astrorum omnium infimus, paril1¹ comitatu obtinentes circulos proprios, salvaque ratione altitudinis interiectae, iunctim locati, ut scienter et decore Ptolemaeus exponit, ad dimensiones venerint, quas² ἀναβιβάζοντας et καταβιβάζοντας ἐκλειπτικοὺς συνδέσμους (coagmenta videlicet defectiva.) Graeco dictitamus³ sermone. Et si contigua eisdem iuncturis praestrinxerint spatia, dilutior erit defectus.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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Res Gestae (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[4] In short, the sun is hidden and his brightness suppressed, when he himself and the orb of the moon, the lowest of all the heavenly bodies, accompanying each other and each keeping its proper course, maintaining the relation of height between them and being in conjunction, as Ptolemy wisely and elegantly expresses it¹ have come to the points which in Greek we call ἀναβιβάζοντας and καταβιβάζοντας ἐκλειπτικοὶ σύνδεσμοι² (that is, eclipse nodes). And if they merely graze the spaces adjacent to these nodes, the eclipse will be partial.

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Res Gestae

1. infimus parili, G; infimis parilis, V.

2. quas, Novák; quos, V.

3. dictitamus, Clark, c.c.; dictitant, G ; dictitata, V.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 20.3.4

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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