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 1   I,  3 |     earth: the sea, that is, and rivers, which we can see, and any
 2   I,  13|       all windy vapours, also of rivers and of the sea. But here,
 3   I,  13|      just like thinking that all rivers are one and the same river,
 4   I,  13|         theory like this. If all rivers flow from one source, and
 5   I,  13|        views about the origin of rivers. It is thought that the
 6   I,  13|         great reservoir, all the rivers from one, or each from a
 7   I,  13| generated, but the volume of the rivers consists of the water that
 8   I,  13|      reservoirs in winter. Hence rivers are always fuller in winter
 9   I,  13|       are perennial, others not. Rivers are perennial where the
10   I,  13|       there is less water in the rivers, and they are dried up and
11   I,  13|          suppose as some do that rivers have their source in definite
12   I,  13|          that the sources of the rivers drip, as it were, out of
13   I,  13|          too, the head-waters of rivers are found to flow from mountains,
14   I,  13|       most numerous and greatest rivers. Again, most springs are
15   I,  13|     ground, whereas if we except rivers, water rarely appears in
16   I,  13|        we find that the greatest rivers flow from the greatest mountains.
17   I,  13|       most numerous and greatest rivers flow from the mountain called
18   I,  13|         our world. Besides other rivers there flow from it the Bactrus,
19   I,  13|        stream is greatest of all rivers. From the Caucasus flows
20   I,  13|        and very many other great rivers besides. Now the Caucasus
21   I,  13|    Euxine. Most of the remaining rivers flow northwards from the
22   I,  13|         the Istrus) the greatest rivers flow from them. So, too,
23   I,  13|        the two greatest of named rivers, the river called Chremetes
24   I,  13|       source of the Nile. Of the rivers in the Greek world, the
25   I,  13|        three from Scombrus; many rivers, too, flow from Rhodope.~
26   I,  13|          from Rhodope.~All other rivers would be found to flow in
27   I,  13|          as examples. Even where rivers flow from marshes, the marshes
28   I,  13|         that we must not suppose rivers to originate from definite
29   I,  13|         came into existence, but rivers always drew their stream
30   I,  13|          Secondly, the fact that rivers rise at the foot of mountains
31   I,  13|       this is how the sources of rivers originate. However, there
32   I,  13|         one were to suppose that rivers drew all their water from
33   I,  13|         sources we see (for most rivers do flow from springs). So
34   I,  13|       earth we are taught by the rivers that are swallowed up. They
35   I,  13|    instance, there are many such rivers in Arcadia. The reason is
36   I,  13|         considerable. Many great rivers fall into it and it has
37   I,  14|         they change according as rivers come into existence and
38   I,  14|        and when this happens the rivers first decrease in size and
39   I,  14|     finally become dry; and when rivers change and disappear in
40   I,  14|       sea was once pushed out by rivers and encroached upon the
41   I,  14|         of silting set up by the rivers when at their full, the
42   I,  14|      cavities is what makes some rivers perennial and others not,
43   I,  14|          overhang the sources of rivers are small or porous and
44   I,  14|          stony and clayey, these rivers run dry earlier. We must
45   I,  14|          the presence of sea and rivers, nor for ever dry. And the
46   I,  14|          the lake Maeotis by the rivers has advanced so much that
47   I,  14|       originally produced by the rivers and that it must end by
48   I,  14|        equally true of all other rivers. But if rivers come into
49   I,  14|         all other rivers. But if rivers come into existence and
50   I,  14|         is so: and also why some rivers are perennial and others
51  II,  1 |         water from fountains and rivers flows of itself, whereas
52  II,  1 |      basins and by the number of rivers. Maeotis flows into Pontus
53  II,  1 |          is due to the number of rivers (more rivers flow into the
54  II,  1 |       the number of rivers (more rivers flow into the Euxine and
55  II,  1 |        then, that just as single rivers flow from mountains, so
56  II,  2 |          find it maintained that rivers not only flow into the sea
57  II,  2 |        place of water. Hence all rivers and all the water that is
58  II,  2 |      though innumerable and vast rivers are flowing into it every
59  II,  2 |        This is the case with the rivers: all the time they are flowing
60  II,  2 |       theory of the Phaedo about rivers and the sea is impossible.
61  II,  2 |        fro, and so it causes the rivers to flow on this side of
62  II,  2 |        up and down is what fills rivers. Many of these form lakes
63  II,  2 |       from the kind of earth the rivers happened to flow through.~
64  II,  2 |      through.~But on this theory rivers do not always flow in the
65  II,  2 |         shall get the proverbial rivers flowing upwards, which is
66  II,  2 |    itself is not true, since all rivers are seen to end in the sea
67  II,  2 |         surface again. And those rivers are large which flow for
68  II,  2 |          are the greatest of the rivers which flow into our sea.
69  II,  2 |         our sea. Indeed, so many rivers fall into them that there
70  II,  2 |     sweet water is only found in rivers, while salt water is stationary,
71  II,  3 |        and is washed down by the rivers and so makes the sea salt
72  II,  3 |   admixture), it is strange that rivers should not be salt too.
73  II,  3 |        differing in nothing from rivers but in being salt, is evidently
74  II,  3 |          of river water, and the rivers are the vehicle in which
75  II,  3 |     prevents the sea, as it does rivers, from drying up except from
76  II,  3 |      this must happen to sea and rivers alike). On the other hand
77  II,  3 |      quantity of salt.~Most salt rivers and springs must once have
78  II,  3 |        lye or ashes. Springs and rivers with all kinds of flavours
79  II,  4 |         of winds is like that of rivers. We do not call water that
80  II,  4 |        many evaporations just as rivers derive their sources from