ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMS

The pivot of the rising sky, today called the ascendant.
Position original: ἐποχὴ (epochē): the degrees by which the planets are located in the zodiac.
Portion original: Μοῖρα (moira): the space of a single degree.
Primary minutes original: πρῶτα λεπτά (prōta lepta): the first divisions of a degree.
Secondary minutes original: Δέυτερα λεπτά (deutera lepta): the second divisions of a degree modern seconds.
The meridian circle, which the Sun marks when it arrives over the human crown the zenith, creating the midpoint of the day.
Elementalists original: στοιχιοματικοὶ (stoichiomatikoi): those who create seals and images from chemical mixtures according to the paths of the stars, whether to heal diseases or to procure other effects of the body or soul.
Mathematicians original: μαθηματικοὶ (mathēmatikoi): this was first the name for the disciples of Pythagoras because they professed Geometry, Sun-dial calculation original: Gnomonicam, Music, and other disciplines; the ancient Greeks called these "learnings" original: μαθήματα (mathēmata). The common people, however, use the word "Mathematicians" for those who ought to be called by their ethnic name, Chaldeans A term often used for Babylonian astrologers. Subsequently, those who were distinguished by these scientific studies proceeded to investigate the works of the world and the principles of nature, and only then were they called Physicists original: φυσικοί (physikoi); students of natural philosophy. Author: Aulus Gellius A Roman author of the 2nd century AD.
Cube original: κύβος (kybos): a four-sided six-faced figure.
Line original: γραμμὴ μῆκος ἀπλατὲς (grammē mēkos aplatēs): that is, a line and length without breadth.
The Wagon original: ἅμαξα (hamaxa): a celestial chariot. Our ancestors called it the Septentriones The North after the yoked oxen—that is, from the seven stars out of which the Triones Threshing oxen are shaped as if yoked together.

NAMES OF THE WINDS ACCORDING TO GELLIUS

Eurus: the wind blowing from the spring east (the equinox), otherwise called the Sun-facing wind original: ἀπηλιώτης (apēliōtēs), and nicknamed Subsolanus Beneath-the-sun by Roman sailors.
Aquilo Boreas: which comes from the summer and solstitial turning-point of the east; Homer called it the Bringer of Clear Skies original: αἰθρηγενέτης (aithrēgenetēs). They think Boreas is named after the "cry" original: βοῆς (boēs) because it has a violent and loud blast.
Vulturnus: blows from the east, called Euronotus original: εὐρόνοτος in Greek because it sits between the South wind Notos and the East wind Eurus.
Caurus: in Greek Argestes original: ἀργεστής; it is opposite to Aquilo.
The other is Favonius: in Greek Zephyrus; it blows opposite to Eurus. See Strabo Ancient Greek geographer on this matter in the first book of his Geography.
Africus: in Greek Lips original: λίψ; it blows opposite to Vulturnus.
Auster: in Greek Notos original: νότος; since it is cloudy and moist, it is the southern wind, for in Greek notis original: νοτίς signifies moisture.
Septentrionarius: or in Greek Aparctias original: ἀπαρκτίας; set opposite and directly toward the South wind.
Circius: a wind known primarily to the Gauls, blowing from their own land; it is most fierce and turbulent.
Iapyx: blows from the borders of Apulia A region in Southern Italy.
Fate: the Greeks call it Pepromene original: πεπρωμένην or Heimarmene original: εἱμαρμένην. It is, however, as Chrysippus A prominent Stoic philosopher says in Gellius: "a certain eternal and unchangeable series of things, and a chain rolling itself upon itself, and entangling itself through eternal orders of consequence, from which it is fitly connected."
The Apparition of a planet: occurs when a planet, which for some time lay hidden under the solar rays, begins to appear in the morning or evening.
A planet is said to lie hidden under the solar rays when it is fifteen degrees before or after the Sun.
Hayz or the "similitude of a planet": occurs when a day-planet is above the earth by day and below the earth by night; and a night-planet is below the earth by day and above the earth by night. It also occurs when a masculine planet is found in a masculine sign and quadrant and is in the east; whereas a feminine planet is found in feminine signs and quadrant and is in the west.
Good configurations of the planets are considered to be: conjunctions of "good" benefic planets with other "good" ones, and "good" aspects—specifically the trine an angle of 120 degrees and sextile an angle of 60 degrees of the luminaries The Sun and Moon toward each other, or with the planets, or of the planets among themselves.
Bad configurations: conjunctions of "bad" malefic planets, and their aspects of opposition 180 degrees and squares 90 degrees; "quarters".