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Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat, They stretch and spread and wink Their ten soft buds that part and meet. Algernon Charles Swinburne		Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
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About Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

	Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
	(100-178) Tetrabiblos.

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