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That point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinox; and where the Equator, the Zodiac, and the equinoctial Colure meet, and form each a cross with the Horizon. ↩

The world is as wax, which the sun softens and stamps with his seal. ↩

“This word almost ,” says Buti, “gives us to understand that it was not the exact moment when the sun enters Aries.” ↩

Milton, Paradise Lost , III 593:⁠—