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Nobis autem ab his separandae sunt rationes et explicandae menstruae dierum brevitates itemque dilatationes. namque sol aequinoctiali tempore ariete libraque versando, quas e gnomone partes habet novem, eas umbrae facit VIII in declinatione caeli, quae est Romae. itemque Athenis quam magnae sunt gnomonis partes quattuor, umbrae sunt tres, ad VII Rhodo V, ad XI Tarenti IX, ad quinque Alexandriae tres, ceterisque omnibus locis aliae alio modo umbrae gnomonum aequinoctiales a natura rerum inveniuntur disparatae.
Vitruvius Pollio. On Architecture. F. Krohn. Lipsiae. B.G. Teubner. 1912.
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