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 1   I,  6|     Pythagoreans say that the comet is one of the planets, but
 2   I,  6|   tail does not belong to the comet iself, but is occasionally
 3   I,  6|     moisture attracted by the comet. It appears at greater intervals
 4   I,  6|   with those who say that the comet is one of the planets. For
 5   I,  6| Moreover the statement that a comet only appears in the north,
 6   I,  6|    not true either. The great comet which appeared at the time
 7   I,  6|       Athens there appeared a comet in the north in the month
 8   I,  6|        For instance the great comet we mentioned before appeared
 9   I,  6|      called it a "path". This comet receded as far as Orion’
10   I,  6|     and hiding it, and yet no comet was formed. Further, we
11   I,  7|      We may say, then, that a comet is formed when the upper
12   I,  7|     and meets it. The kind of comet varies according to the
13   I,  7|      region independently the comet appears by itself. But when
14   I,  7| motion, one of them becomes a comet. The fringe is not close
15   I,  7|     in relation to a star the comet necessarily appears to follow
16   I,  7|     as the star. But when the comet is formed independently
17   I,  7|       It is this fact, that a comet often forms independently,
18   I,  7| impossible to maintain that a comet is a sort of reflection,
19   I,  7|     in the daytime-then too a comet happened to have appeared
20   I,  7|      at the time of the great comet the winter was dry and north
21   I,  7|    archonship of Nicomachus a comet appeared for a few days
22   I,  8|     just as they say that the comet is.~But this too is impossible.