The Ten Books on Architecture, 9.1.8

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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8Mercury, on his journey through the heavens, passes through the spaces of the signs in three hundred and sixty days, and so arrives at the sign from which he set out on his course at the beginning of his revolution. His average rate of movement is such that he has about thirty days in each sign.

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