excedo

Deinde hic proximus a septentrione motus sui initium fecit et per occidentem in meridiana pervenit erigensque cursum suum oblituit, alter ille Claudianus, a septentrione primum visus, non desiit in rectum assidue celsior ferri, donec excessit.

‘In the second place, this recent comet started its motion in the north and passing through the west it arrived in the southern region and its orbit passed out of sight as it was rising. The other comet, the one in the time of Claudius, was first seen in the north, and was carried continuously straight up and did not stop until it disappeared.’

outside the zodiac (of planets)

Huic conexa latitudinum signiferi obliquitatisque causa est. per hunc stellae quas diximus feruntur, nec aliud habitatur in terris quam quod illi subiacet, reliqua a polis squalent. Veneris tantum stella excedit eum binis partibus, quae causa intellegitur efficere ut quaedam animalia et in desertis mundi nascantur.

‘Linked with this is the cause of the latitudes of the zodiac and of its obliquity. The stars we have mentioned travel through the zodiac, and the only habitable part of the earth is what lies beneath it—all the other parts towards the poles are frost-bound. Only the planet Venus goes two degrees outside the zodiac; this is understood to be the reason that causes some animals to be born even in the desert places of the world.’