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  1   I,  2 |     centre. These four bodies are fire, air, water, earth. Fire
  2   I,  2 |          fire, air, water, earth. Fire occupies the highest place
  3   I,  2 |     another, air being nearest to fire, water to earth. The whole
  4   I,  2 |        another.) So we must treat fire and earth and the elements
  5   I,  3 |          phenomena akin to these.~Fire, air, water, earth, we assert,
  6   I,  3 |        the word means the same as fire. For he thought that the
  7   I,  3 |        upper regions were full of fire, and that men referred to
  8   I,  3 |       which contains them is pure fire, and the interval between
  9   I,  3 |        the intervals were full of fire and the bodies consisted
 10   I,  3 |           the bodies consisted of fire every one of the other elements
 11   I,  3 |    dissolves into air or air into fire. Whereas the proportion
 12   I,  3 |        clear that neither air nor fire alone fills the intermediate
 13   I,  3 |          the two elements air and fire to the position of the first
 14   I,  3 |           element. This cannot be fire, for then all the rest would
 15   I,  3 |           body distinct both from fire and from air, but varying
 16   I,  3 |         and what we commonly call fire. It is not really fire,
 17   I,  3 |       call fire. It is not really fire, for fire is an excess of
 18   I,  3 |           is not really fire, for fire is an excess of heat and
 19   I,  3 |       exhalation potentially like fire. So we must take the reason
 20   I,  3 |         but rather with a sort of fire.~However, it may well be
 21   I,  3 |       causes its circular motion, fire being continuous with the
 22   I,  3 |        upper element and air with fire. Thus its motion is a second
 23   I,  3 |           of air and the other of fire, and each of them is perpetually
 24   I,  3 |        world. Another is that the fire surrounding the air is often
 25   I,  3 |        the more apt it is to take fire. Besides, the sun, which
 26   I,  4 |        dry element, which we call fire, for there is no word fully
 27   I,  4 |      think of what we just called fire as being spread round the
 28   I,  4 |         up in any way, it catches fire at the point at which it
 29   I,  4 |    happens because matter catches fire at the sides in small portions
 30   I,  4 |        thrown than like a running fire. For the question might
 31   I,  4 |        thing after another caught fire. Or is a "star" when it "
 32   I,  7 |           so inflammable that the fire runs through it quickly
 33   I,  7 |    quickly in a line. Now if this fire were to persist instead
 34   I,  7 |          halo in the pure fuel of fire.~As for the halo we shall
 35   I,  8 |     called the air is potentially fire and that therefore when
 36   I,  10|          because the ratio of the fire that is raising it to the
 37   I,  10|           water, having still the fire that raised it: consequently
 38  II,  2 |         it. Thus the main body of fire is in the upper region;
 39  II,  2 |         next inside the region of fire; while the mass of the earth
 40  II,  2 |         the sphere called that of fire (which is the outermost
 41  II,  2 |           he must perish. For the fire we are familiar with lives
 42  II,  2 |        fed, and the only food for fire is moisture. As if the moisture
 43  II,  2 |    moisture to rise, this is like fire heating water. So, as the
 44  II,  2 |         heating water. So, as the fire is not fed by the water
 45  II,  3 |           air and sweet water and fire? All of these are in a constant
 46  II,  3 |          that has been exposed to fire contains heat potentially,
 47  II,  3 |       been hot. Then the original fire in them was extinguished
 48  II,  3 |          every case be due to the fire that is or was in them,
 49  II,  4 |      there is a great quantity of fire and heat in the earth, and
 50  II,  5 |          little fuel into a great fire, it is often burnt up before
 51  II,  7 |           and light ones, such as fire, away from it; especially
 52  II,  8 |          Then the sun and its own fire warm it and give rise to
 53  II,  8 | conditions in the highest degree (fire only becomes flame and moves
 54  II,  8 |    recognized as the cause of the fire that is generated in the
 55  II,  8 |       beaten about and so catches fire.~A phenomenon in these islands
 56  II,  9 |       burns with a thin and faint fire: this is what we call lightning,
 57  II,  9 |   maintain that there is actually fire in the clouds. Empedocles
 58  II,  9 |       upper ether (which he calls fire) which has descended from
 59  II,  9 |        then, is the gleam of this fire, and thunder the hissing
 60  II,  9 |          this intercepting of the fire is impossible on either
 61  II,  9 |          heated by the sun and by fire: yet when it contracts again
 62  II,  9 |           exhalation generated by fire: but it is impossible for
 63  II,  9 |          others that lightning is fire shining through the cloud
 64  II,  9 |       thunder its extinction, the fire not being generated in each
 65 III,  1 |       called a fire-wind, for its fire colours the neighbouring
 66 III,  1 |          an object before setting fire to it or dwelling on it
 67 III,  1 |     sheets of flame left the main fire and were carried bodily
 68 III,  4 |         and at night. So, just as fire is intensified by added
 69 III,  4 |           is intensified by added fire, black beside black makes
 70 III,  6 |      except gold) are affected by fire, and they possess an admixture
 71  IV,  1 |          Hence everything, except fire, is liable to putrefy; for
 72  IV,  1 |         them matter relatively to fire. The definition of putrefaction
 73  IV,  1 |          contains too much proper fire and cold for the corresponding
 74  IV,  3 |          of the concoction is the fire contained in the moisture;
 75  IV,  3 |        boiling" when the external fire that surrounds and heats
 76  IV,  3 |         liquid but to that of the fire, the thing will have been
 77  IV,  3 |           the parts nearer to the fire are the first to get dry
 78  IV,  3 |        deficiency in the external fire or to the quantity of water
 79  IV,  4 |           alone and not in air or fire.~Of the qualities of bodies
 80  IV,  6 |          by cold are dissolved by fire, which is hot. Some things
 81  IV,  6 |      bodies are not solidified by fire: for it is fire that dissolves
 82  IV,  6 |     solidified by fire: for it is fire that dissolves them, and
 83  IV,  6 |      water are solidified both by fire and by cold and in either
 84  IV,  6 |          out of earth burnt up by fire, such as millstones, cannot
 85  IV,  7 |    contains more water than earth fire only thickens it: if it
 86  IV,  7 |         if it contains more earth fire solidifies it. Hence natron
 87  IV,  7 |         earth preponderated, then fire ought to do so. Actually
 88  IV,  7 |           is thicker than either. Fire and the lapse of time thicken
 89  IV,  7 |          giving off vapour and so fire does not dry it or boil
 90  IV,  7 |         not by evaporation due to fire) are made up either of earth
 91  IV,  7 |        away if you boil it over a fire. But the earthy element
 92  IV,  7 |        and the moist, that is, to fire and to water (these being
 93  IV,  7 | dissolving what was solidified by fire alone, fire what was solidified
 94  IV,  7 |         solidified by fire alone, fire what was solidified by cold
 95  IV,  7 |         escaping: and seeing that fire solidified it, that cannot
 96  IV,  9 |        agent in softening them is fire. Such are iron and horn.~
 97  IV,  9 |        pores are such as to admit fire and their longitudinal pores
 98  IV,  9 |      contain moisture weaker than fire. If they have no moisture,
 99  IV,  9 |         moisture is stronger than fire, they are not combustible.~
100  IV,  9 |          when they are exposed to fire. For vapour is a moist secretion
101  IV,  9 |      these bodies are mastered by fire. Of stones the precious
102  IV,  9 |    carbuncle is least amenable to fire.~Of combustible bodies some
103  IV,  9 |         because they are dry like fire. When this dry comes to
104  IV,  9 |          comes to be hot there is fire. This is why flame is burning
105  IV,  9 |           which the transition to fire is effected), but burn very
106  IV,  10|        same way: the agent is not fire, but cold which drives out
107  IV,  10|      bodies the agent is external fire.) In those from which the
108  IV,  10|        bodies which are melted by fire, these contain some water:
109  IV,  10|          are not melted either by fire or water are of earth, or
110  IV,  10|    elements than one, and whether fire was the agent in its formation,
111  IV,  11|          the complete opposite of fire), but if earth or air it
112  IV,  11|         burning after exposure to fire: thus water is more burning
113  IV,  12|      clear to see, and in that of fire and water even less. For
114  IV,  12|           end and is not water or fire in any and every condition
115  IV,  12|         the tongue. So, too, with fire; but its function is perhaps