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1 I, 13| 13~Let us explain the nature 2 I, 14| 14~The same parts of the earth 3 II, 5 | smokes and vapours. They abate at night because the cold 4 II, 7 | and later Democritus of Abdera.~Anaxagoras says that the 5 III, 5 | Next let the horizon be ABG but let H have risen above 6 II, 2 | nourished by moisture are absurdly mistaken. Some go on to 7 I, 7 | very star it is alleged to accompany-in fact, a kind of halo in 8 I, 1 | account we can give, in accordance with the method we have 9 II, 3 | the dry exhalation which accounts for its great quantity. 10 II, 5 | as such matters admit of accurate statement. Yet we know the 11 IV, 12| cannot state their form accurately, and so it is not easy to 12 I, 3 | from these. But it actually acquires or retains one of these 13 IV, 8 | in virtue of a power of acting on sense). Secondly by other 14 III, 3 | angle. Let the lines AG, AZ, AD be equal and those at B, 15 III, 3 | circle.~Let AGB and AZB and ADB be lines each of which goes 16 III, 5 | is greater than B. Then add to B a line Z such that 17 II, 3 | besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and 18 II, 4 | considerable district because adjacent places (unless there is 19 IV, 12| and their motion would be admitted to account for the formation 20 I, 13| mountain called Parnassus, admittedly the greatest of all mountains 21 IV, 9 | must be tractile (without admitting water) or malleable (without 22 I, 14| Maeotis by the rivers has advanced so much that the limit to 23 IV, 9 | and the act of division advances: which is not the case with 24 I, 14| would have been of no little advantage to them for the whole region 25 II, 4 | that make wind cease on the advent of rain, and rain fall on 26 II, 8 | The hot springs, too, near Aedepsus are due to a cause of this 27 I, 13| Aethiopian mountains the Aegon and the Nyses; and from 28 I, 7 | instance when the stone at Aegospotami fell out of the air-it had 29 II, 8 | of the group called the Aeolian islands. Here a portion 30 II, 5 | India exceeds that from Aethiopia to Maeotis and the northernmost 31 I, 13| Libya there flow from the Aethiopian mountains the Aegon and 32 II, 8 | Earthquakes are local and often affect a small district only; whereas 33 III, 1 | filtered through without affecting it. So it has passed through 34 I, 6 | the truth of his view and affirms that certain stars have 35 II, 1 | regions of the earth is afforded by the view of many of the 36 III, 2 | and at midday or in the afternoon, more rarely about sunrise 37 III, 3 | always lie on a circle.~Let AGB and AZB and ADB be lines 38 I, 7 | Aegospotami fell out of the air-it had been carried up by a 39 I, 7 | but to the very star it is alleged to accompany-in fact, a 40 II, 1 | regions in the north. Their alluvium makes the northern seas 41 II, 5 | winds are always blowing alternately, like north and south winds 42 II, 3 | flavour. It becomes full of alum and lye and other things 43 IV, 10| that the word "wine" is ambiguous and different "wines" behave 44 IV, 9 | called carbuncle is least amenable to fire.~Of combustible 45 I, 14| reason Libya-the country of Ammon-is, strangely enough, lower 46 I, 3 | this view it is certain amounts of each that are equal in 47 I, 1 | how they change into one another-and becoming and perishing in 48 II, 2 | reason for this, besides answering this question, will ensure 49 | anyhow 50 I, 3 | separately, nor can it do so apart from that volume of it which 51 I, 4 | This is shown by their apparent speed, which is equal to 52 I, 4 | single body that is thrown? Apparently both cases occur: sometimes 53 III, 2 | since the same account applies to them all.~We must first 54 II, 4 | call it a sort of smoke, applying to the whole of it a word 55 I, 3 | region is. For it is neither appreciably near to the heat of the 56 I, 6 | conjunction of the planets approaching one another and so appearing 57 II, 3 | entirely. Such a tale is appropriate enough to Aesop in a rage 58 I, 13| facts. When men construct an aqueduct they collect the water in 59 I, 12| summer and not in winter in Arabia and Ethiopia too, and that 60 I, 13| Bactrus, the Choaspes, the Araxes: from the last a branch 61 II, 5 | the north wind I from the arctic regions which are full of 62 II, 6 | dwellers in the west Thrasciae, Argestae, and Zephyrus (for Zephyrus 63 I, 14| happened to the land of Argos and Mycenae in Greece. In 64 I, 6 | been said, without further argument, to show that the causes 65 I, 12| ceases there, and upon its arrival there the water freezes. 66 IV, 11| light of the results we have arrived at what solid or liquid 67 II, 2 | compact mass, but when it arrives at a vast wide place it 68 II, 1 | wells need to be worked artificially. All the waters that exist 69 IV, 3 | the lower belly, and they ascend afterwards. For concoction 70 II, 2 | could reach the sun! or this ascent were really like that performed 71 II, 5 | earth as round, but both ascertained facts and general considerations 72 I, 13| those who have seen them.~In Asia we find that the most numerous 73 I, 14| Whenever the current from the Asiatic shore threw up a sandbank, 74 II, 6 | water and snow is pushed aside into this quarter because 75 II, 3 | why the sea is salt, and ask whether it eternally exists 76 I, 3 | originate from one another, but asserts that they are equal in power. 77 II, 3 | analogous. What heat fails to assimilate becomes the excrementary 78 I, 3 | it appears to be an old assumption and one which men have held 79 I, 6 | clear, in the archonship of Asteius. On the first day it set 80 I, 6 | Euclees, son of Molon, at Athens there appeared a comet in 81 III, 3 | weather.~So much for the atmospheric conditions under which the 82 I, 8 | we may call it "a fringe attaching to the greatest circle, 83 III, 3 | broken up but is allowed to attain its normal state, it is 84 IV, 2 | presupposed state which is attained when the moisture has acquired 85 II, 3 | impossible.~Since all the attempts to account for the saltness 86 II, 8 | earth we get an earthquake attended by wind. Only these earthquakes 87 I, 9 | and air, and the processes attending the formation of water above 88 II, 1 | necessarily strikes the attention.~The whole of the Mediterranean 89 I, 6 | the sun from the moisture attracted by the comet. It appears 90 IV, 1 | thing’s peculiar heat that attracts moisture and draws it in. 91 I, 6 | must not only accept the authority of the Egyptians who assert 92 II, 7 | date are three, and their authors three men, Anaxagoras of 93 III, 3 | angle. Let the lines AG, AZ, AD be equal and those at 94 III, 3 | on a circle.~Let AGB and AZB and ADB be lines each of 95 I, 13| rivers there flow from it the Bactrus, the Choaspes, the Araxes: 96 III, 2 | the same colour: the other bands correspond on the same principle. 97 I, 14| For it is clear that a barrier of silt was formed and after 98 II, 1 | Mediterranean with its much larger basin), and to their own shallowness. 99 II, 1 | determined by the depth of the basins and by the number of rivers. 100 IV, 2 | degrees to its fulfilment. Baths, for instance, and other 101 III, 1 | matter that was burning. The beams which were the source of 102 I, 7 | one direction it is called bearded. We have seen that when 103 II, 5 | as the place we live in bears to our pole, it will clearly 104 II, 3 | that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats 105 II, 8 | and then breaks out and beats against the earth and shakes 106 II, 1 | by moisture. Then the sun began to dry it up, part of it 107 II, 4 | shows that the wind has begun to blow before it has actually 108 II, 8 | earth sometimes seems to "bellow" as the portentmongers say.~ 109 I, 6 | receded as far as Orion’s belt and there dissolved. Democritus 110 II, 4 | the wind blowing the air betrays its presence if there are 111 I, 13| lakes: only they cannot be big enough to produce the supposed 112 II, 3 | Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw 113 II, 5 | not yet receded far. The "bird winds" blow in the same 114 IV, 9 | leaves and the thick wings of birds and scales that grow on 115 III, 1 | principle and quench it at its birth: that they do prevail is 116 II, 3 | food is sweet. If then the bitterness is due in these cases (as 117 III, 4 | everything at a distance looks blacker, because sight does not 118 III, 4 | purest when the cloud is blackest; and then the red shows 119 III, 1 | issued forth and went up in a blaze: so that the flame was actually 120 I, 7 | in the gulf a north wind blew and outside it a violent 121 I, 5 | instance and "trenches" and blood-red colours. These, too, have 122 I, 5 | light breaking out of a dark blue or black mass of air. When 123 IV, 7 | solidifies and thickens by boiling-I mean, must. All bodies of 124 II, 6 | the winter solstice. It borders on Notus, and so we often 125 II, 4 | from the north are called Boreae, those from the south Noti.)~ 126 II, 6 | combines the qualities of Boreas and Eurus. By being cold 127 IV, 5 | body determined by its own boundary must be either hard or soft; 128 I, 3 | are there and what are the bounds of their regions?~We have 129 IV, 12| not for that of a saw, a bowl, or a box. So here, save 130 IV, 12| that of a saw, a bowl, or a box. So here, save that in the 131 I, 13| Araxes: from the last a branch separates off and flows 132 IV, 9 | as it is made up of many breadths it is apt to be cut.~A thing 133 II, 8 | It is the same with the breath we blow from our mouth: 134 II, 8 | is warm, as it is when we breathe out through the mouth, but 135 IV, 5 | internal where the heat breathes out and takes away and uses 136 IV, 3 | them. If we go further, brick is called raw and so is 137 I, 6 | glanced at it, it appeared brighter. Besides, all the comets 138 I, 8 | full of the biggest and brightest constellations and also 139 II, 3 | that if you make strong brine by the admixture of salt, 140 I, 10| cold. For the south wind brings warm, and the north, wintry 141 III, 1 | it has happened that the bronze of a shield has been melted 142 II, 1 | the whole world had been built up round our earth and for 143 I, 10| bearing as it were too heavy a burden cannot lift it to a great 144 II, 8 | cinders and ashes which buried the neighbouring town of 145 II, 3 | anything has been explained by calling the sea "the sweat of the 146 II, 9 | the upper ether (which he calls fire) which has descended 147 II, 8 | that being generally the calmest part of the day. For when 148 II, 5 | blows from the tropic of Cancer and not from the antarctic 149 I, 14| single exception of that at Canopus, are obviously artificial 150 I, 7 | extinguished, but stronger and capable of burning up much material, 151 IV, 8 | senses, that is, by their capacities of action. (For a thing 152 IV, 9 | the precious stone called carbuncle is least amenable to fire.~ 153 II, 9 | unattractive: this, too, is a most careless explanation. Thunder, lightning, 154 II, 3 | that ships with the same cargo very nearly sink in a river 155 IV, 3 | at all, but too small to carry out the process of concocting 156 IV, 5 | either internal or external, carrying off the moisture in vapour. 157 II, 1 | straits, and the Hyrcanian and Caspian seas are distinct from this 158 IV, 3 | liquid and solid excreta and catarrhs are called raw for the same 159 I, 12| them as portents of some catastrophe. Sometimes, too, when such 160 I, 14| dense, and cold mountains catch and keep and create most 161 I, 2 | affected), but must assign causality in the sense of the originating 162 II, 8 | or the earth spongy and cavernous: so they occur near the 163 IV, 10| e.g. the stalactites in caves. (For these stalactites, 164 I, 8 | matter is continually and ceaselessly collecting there. A proof 165 I, 13| mountain towards the west in Celtice) there flow the Istrus and 166 II, 8 | motive force. This will certainly be the body that naturally 167 I, 7 | phenomena to a heap or mass of chaff into which a torch is thrust, 168 IV, 9 | when they are composed like chains, for then they can be drawn 169 II, 3 | salt deposit settling in chamber-pots) and is secreted from the 170 II, 3 | which makes it salt. In Chaonia there is a spring of brackish 171 IV, 8 | Secondly by other more characteristic affections which express 172 II, 3 | Libya. So the south wind charges the rain that falls with 173 II, 3 | tales. His story was that Charybdis had twice sucked in the 174 I, 5 | torches" ejected. When the "chasm" contracts it presents the 175 I, 3 | opinion. For it is altogether childish to suppose that the moving 176 I, 6 | expressed by Hippocrates of Chios and his pupil Aeschylus. 177 I, 13| from it the Bactrus, the Choaspes, the Araxes: from the last 178 II, 3 | gave the inhabitants the choice, they chose salt in preference 179 II, 3 | inhabitants the choice, they chose salt in preference to fish. 180 I, 13| rivers, the river called Chremetes that flows into the outer 181 II, 8 | of it and threw up live cinders and ashes which buried the 182 III, 6 | either coloured lye or, like cinnabar, a stone compounded of it. 183 II, 4 | instance, the dry evaporation circulates in its own place while the 184 III, 5 | the intersection of the circumferences is given, and the same ratio 185 II, 3 | navigate in the sea. This circumstance has before now caused loss 186 I, 14| or porous and stony and clayey, these rivers run dry earlier. 187 II, 7 | three men, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, and before him Anaximenes 188 II, 3 | in it and shake them it cleans them. The following facts 189 II, 6 | help of the figure. For clearness’ sake we have drawn the 190 I, 2 | first cause. Besides, that clement is eternal and its motion 191 I, 13| Hence some, wishing to say a clever thing, assert that all the 192 II, 7 | equally porous, its surface is clogged up by rain. This implies 193 I, 8 | constellations are more numerous and closer to one another than in the 194 II, 5 | the time when the sun is closest nor when it is distant; 195 IV, 3 | secreted but is shut in by the closing of the pores. Now broiling 196 IV, 7 | element in milk can also be coagulated by the help of fig-juice, 197 I, 12| since solid bodies cannot coalesce like liquid ones. Clearly 198 I, 6 | who say that comets are a coalescence of the planets is, first, 199 IV, 9 | the pores along which they cohere lengthwise and not crosswise.~ 200 II, 7 | sodden and destroys its cohesion.~But if this were the case 201 I, 6 | ourselves observed Jupiter coinciding with one of the stars in 202 IV, 6 | opposite of the dry-hot is the cold-moist and what the one solidified 203 I, 3 | is not observed to exist collectively and separately, nor can 204 III, 4 | shows a trace of rainbow colouring. Clearly, then, when sight 205 II, 3 | wind, on the other hand, comb ing from moist regions, 206 II, 8 | true cause is the wind.~The combination of a tidal wave with an 207 IV, 1 | are four, and that their combinations determine the number of 208 I, 5 | fire-colour and white are combined by superposition. Thus on 209 I, 7 | begin to move. Such is a comet-like a shooting-star that contains 210 IV, 12| above, tension, tractility, comminuibility, hardness, softness, and 211 IV, 9 | separation into large parts, comminution into parts of any size, 212 II, 6 | condensation.~Hurricanes are commonest in autumn, and next in spring: 213 II, 1 | The Red Sea, for instance, communicates but slightly with the ocean 214 IV, 9 | that have many pores not communicating with one another are comminuible ( 215 II, 1 | several seas that have no communication with one another at all. 216 IV, 7 | to evaporate, the cold so compacts these bodies together again 217 II, 8 | secretion is shut up in a narrow compass and forced into a smaller 218 III, 1 | on from behind; so it is compelled to move sideways in the 219 I, 13| himself or of such as he has compiled after inquiry from those 220 I, 14| land of Mycenae has become completely dry and barren, while the 221 III, 4 | change is visible, but three completes the series of colours (as 222 IV, 3 | process has been carried to completion: if the process has gone 223 IV, 5 | are due to concretion, all composite and determined bodies must 224 III, 6 | itself. Rods appear when the composition of the cloud is uneven, 225 II, 8 | cavities. Thus a great wind is compressed into a smaller space and 226 III, 6 | in stones. Their dryness compresses it, and it congeals just 227 I, 4 | motions are involved, a compulsory motion downwards and a natural 228 II, 5 | than the breadth. If we compute these voyages and journeys 229 IV, 5 | does, but by collecting and concentrating heat.~The subjects of drying 230 I, 12| on the same day. For the concentration or recoil due to the extreme 231 II, 2 | our having a right first conception of the nature of the sea.~ 232 I, 1 | inquiry into these matters is concluded let us consider what account 233 IV, 3 | carry out the process of concocting uniformly and thoroughly. 234 III, 4 | to describe its various concomitants, and to assign their causes.~ 235 II, 9 | from time to time. They are concretions in the same way as thunder 236 III, 3 | of the sun dissolves the condensations of the air more rapidly.~ 237 IV, 4 | like that of a dish and its condiments. The moist is what makes 238 II, 8 | of this kind. It is the confined character of these places 239 III, 1 | well, as in the case of the conflagration of the temple at Ephesus 240 III, 6 | dryness compresses it, and it congeals just as dew or hoar-frost 241 I, 12| clearly follows that the congelation does not take place because 242 IV, 1 | describe as active, for "congregating" is essentially a species 243 IV, 1 | heat and cold determine, conjoin, and change things of the 244 I, 6 | the Egyptians affirm that conjunctions of the planets with one 245 IV, 9 | also pores which do not connect and is therefore differently 246 II, 8 | earthquakes are a necessary consequence of this fact. The earth 247 I, 1 | earthquakes and all the consequences the motions of these kinds 248 III, 5 | the visible arc, and the consequent distance of the point of 249 II, 2 | it every day.) But if one considers the matter the solution 250 I, 3 | full of fire and the bodies consisted of fire every one of the 251 IV, 9 | of which the body itself consists-and that can sink upon the void 252 II, 5 | because the size of the constellation makes its rise last over 253 II, 9 | clouds thunder. The essential constituent of all these phenomena is 254 III, 4 | particles, the union of which constitutes a raindrop, is necessarily 255 I, 13| proved by facts. When men construct an aqueduct they collect 256 I, 13| existence of such places containing a quantity of water like 257 III, 3 | to be visible, but their contiguity makes the whole made up 258 II, 8 | after them. Islands near the continent really form part of it: 259 II, 3 | volume while its parts are in continual change, like air and sweet 260 II, 8 | exhausted the shocks must continue, though more gently, and 261 II, 8 | happen that an earthquake has continued until the wind that caused 262 I, 2 | necessarily has a certain continuity with the upper motions: 263 II, 4 | drought in a certain part; or, contrariwise, all the surrounding country 264 II, 4 | the moist in another, or conversely. Again the reason for this 265 IV, 3 | the moisture; for what is cooked in a frying-pan is broiled: 266 IV, 3 | things boiled in the way of cooking. The indeterminate matter, 267 I, 13| earth off the land of the Coraxi about the so-called "deeps 268 I, 7 | there happened the storm at Corinth.~That there are few comets 269 IV, 10| as leguminous plants and corn. For things of this kind 270 IV, 12| only remains. So ancient corpses suddenly become ashes in 271 I, 8 | astronomical demonstrations are correct and the size of the sun 272 IV, 12| unless the body is thoroughly corrupted and its shape only remains. 273 II, 6 | southerly. The west winds are counted as northerly, for they blow 274 I, 14| dry, that formerly were covered with water. But the opposite 275 II, 6 | and Eurus are hot. Caecias covers the sky with heavy clouds, 276 II, 9 | when the wood dries and cracks and the exhalation rushes 277 II, 8 | there it must remain in a cramped space like water that cannot 278 I, 5 | white in contrast with black creates a variety of colours; like 279 IV, 10| complete account of the criteria for distinguishing whether 280 II, 8 | sand are very thick and crooked, but when the sea is calm 281 I, 13| south-east. When you have crossed it you see the outer ocean, 282 II, 5 | because of the cold.~(The Crown, too, moves over this region: 283 II, 8 | them by its weight and so crushes them. Then, currents and 284 III, 5 | smallest when the luminous body culminates. First let the luminous 285 II, 2 | one were to spread out a cup of water over a large table. 286 IV, 3 | it divides into whey and curd. Oil by itself is affected 287 IV, 9 | to the straight or to a curve, for a thing is said to 288 I, 3 | the um opinions appear in cycles among men not once nor twice, 289 I, 14| the land. So he first, and Darius afterwards, stopped making 290 III, 3 | reason these haloes are the darkest. It is a sign of wind when 291 II, 7 | forward up to the present date are three, and their authors 292 II, 9 | seen by day because the daylight is too in, tense and obscures 293 I, 7 | wind and fell down in the daytime-then too a comet happened to 294 III, 3 | angles; GE from G, ZE from Z, DE from D. Then these perpendiculars 295 II, 2 | change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest 296 I, 6 | Anaxagoras and Democritus declare that comets are a conjunction 297 I, 14| happens the rivers first decrease in size and then finally 298 III, 4 | colour to the whole. We may deduce that since these conditions 299 IV, 3 | through lack of heat due to deficiency in the external fire or 300 III, 1 | part of the moving body is deflected because of the resistance 301 III, 4 | condition made it so weak and delicate that the air close by acted 302 I, 14| occur in the same place. The deluge in the time of Deucalion, 303 I, 3 | any difference if any one denies that the elements originate 304 IV, 2 | things are not properly denoted by these words: the various 305 II, 3 | for ever. They must either deny that the water raised by 306 II, 3 | that most of the moisture departed and was drawn up by the 307 II, 3 | flesh in sweat (as if the departing moisture were washing the 308 II, 5 | earth is ridiculous. They depict the inhabited earth as round, 309 I, 14| place where the river is depositing the silt are necessarily 310 IV, 9 | where part of the surface is depressed while the rest remains, 311 IV, 11| bodies are coldest when deprived of heat and most burning 312 II, 8 | the evaporation than its depths. Wherever an earthquake 313 I, 12| freezing is quicker than the descent of the water. For if the 314 II, 8 | which correspond to our description-where the sea is supposed to flow 315 II, 3 | longer on this point than it deserves.~To return to the saltness 316 II, 3 | carried to their common destination.~It is equally absurd to 317 I, 14| and are destroyed. Of such destructions the most utter and sudden 318 I, 1 | plants, both generally and in detail. When that has been done 319 I, 14| grow excessively dry and deteriorate. This happened to the land 320 IV, 4 | moist is what makes the dry determinable, and each serves as a sort 321 IV, 1 | are the subjects of that determination and of the other affections 322 IV, 1 | determined gets the better of the determining by the help of the environment ( 323 I, 14| The deluge in the time of Deucalion, for instance, took place 324 II, 8 | district in Liguria, which were devastated by this kind of earthquake.~ 325 II, 6 | it be the north and its diametrical opposite O the south. Let 326 IV, 12| For they are all of them differentiated by the various qualities 327 IV, 9 | connect and is therefore differently affected according as the 328 I, 7 | happens to take. If it is diffused equally on every side the 329 IV, 2 | the kind contribute to the digestion of food, but the primary 330 I, 6 | sight on it its light was dim, but if you just glanced 331 I, 14| heat, which increase and diminish on account of the sun and 332 III, 4 | the case: the reflection diminishes the sight that reaches them. 333 II, 3 | Democritus that the sea is diminishing and will disappear in the 334 IV, 5 | cause. Hence concretion and disaggregation, drying and moistening, 335 II, 2 | into them that there is disagreement as to the sources of them 336 I, 14| the last inhabitants have disappeared. In the same way a nation 337 II, 1 | anywhere they must have been discovered.~It is true that in straits, 338 II, 9 | thunder and lightning are discretions, so that if it is true of 339 IV, 7 | is water. The fact that diseased blood will not solidify 340 IV, 4 | another is like that of a dish and its condiments. The 341 II, 3 | to season some of their dishes. In the neighbourhood of 342 I, 3 | where the reflected rays disperse in the infinity of space 343 II, 9 | Now the heat that escapes disperses to the up region. But if 344 I, 9 | raising it leaves it, in part dispersing to the higher region, in 345 IV, 10| and since the things that display the affections we have enumerated 346 IV, 9 | flame. In frankincense it is disposed in both of these ways. Fumigable 347 I, 3 | air and of water will be disproportionately great. For the spaces left 348 II, 5 | faint the sun wastes it and dissipates by its greater heat the 349 I, 9 | recedes, obviously causes dissipation and condensation and so 350 I, 3 | original principles and the distinctions already drawn and then explain 351 II, 2 | on it, and that we cannot distinguish between some air which preserves 352 IV, 10| account of the criteria for distinguishing whether a body consists 353 IV, 6 | softer, and is liable to distortion in the ovens for that reason.~ 354 II, 4 | water which falls and is distributed through the earth. (This 355 II, 6 | later.~Since this is the distribution of the winds it is clear 356 I, 3 | they originate in marshy districts of the earth; and they do 357 II, 5 | and therefore liable to disturbance.~The Etesiae blow after 358 I, 3 | eternally in motion was also divine in nature; and, as such 359 III, 2 | sensibly divisible since divisibility is involved in the notion 360 III, 2 | mirror will be sensibly divisible since divisibility is involved 361 IV, 7 | boil it in a certain way as doctors do when they treat it with 362 I, 14| Hellas, the country about Dodona and the Achelous, a river 363 I, 6 | star in the thigh of the Dog had a tail, though a faint 364 II, 5 | solstice and the rising of the dog-star: not at the time when the 365 I, 8 | another varies. For the Dolphin sometimes rises at midnight, 366 III, 4 | same cause explains the double rainbow and the faintness 367 IV, 9 | e.g. hair, thongs, sinew, dough, birdlime, and some are 368 I, 8 | at the time of Phaethon’s downfall. Others say that the sun 369 I, 4 | it condenses and inclines downward contracts, and thrusts out 370 III, 1 | descends to the earth and drags with it the cloud which 371 II, 2 | sweet, yet the residuum and dregs of liquid food are found 372 I, 13| the sources of the rivers drip, as it were, out of the 373 I, 9 | small drops it is called a drizzle; when the drops are larger 374 II, 8 | and in times of wet and of drought-because these are the windiest seasons. 375 II, 8 | earthquakes, rains, and droughts have their source and origin 376 II, 5 | the earth they cut out a drum-shaped figure. The lines form two 377 IV, 1 | ends by becoming earth or dung. The subject’s own heat 378 I, 7 | to be excessive either in duration or strength. For instance 379 III, 1 | before setting fire to it or dwelling on it so as to blacken it: 380 I, 9 | had some secret meaning in early writers, perhaps they may 381 I, 3 | that surrounds the whole earth-vapour being water dissolved.~After 382 II, 6 | vaporous air, and because it is easterly it carries with it and drives 383 IV, 3 | same: some are meant to be eaten, some drunk, and some are 384 II, 8 | the earth like a sort of ebb tide, corresponding to the 385 II, 8 | there often are winds before eclipses: at nightfall if the eclipse 386 III, 1 | itself be one. This is how eddies are generated on the earth, 387 IV, 9 | the transition to fire is effected), but burn very readily 388 IV, 8 | are in a sort of state of effervescence), and those which do possess 389 II, 8 | is such that the united efforts of many men do not succeed 390 II, 8 | earthquake, just like water (for effusion is a form of upsetting). 391 II, 3 | by the admixture of salt, eggs, even when they are full, 392 IV, 2 | liquid and solid excreta and ejecta in general are signs of 393 I, 4 | cold and squeezes out and ejects the hot element; making 394 I, 14| period of time is likely to elapse from the first departure 395 I, 1 | heavens, and the physical element-enumerating and specifying them and 396 IV, 9 | their surface can be made to elongate, for being drawn out is 397 IV, 11| elements that primarily embody them, and they are characterized 398 III, 4 | of contrast. In woven and embroidered stuffs the appearance of 399 III, 4 | differences of illumination. Thus embroiderers say that they often make 400 II, 3 | sweat of the earth", like Empedicles. Metaphors are poetical 401 II, 7 | water from the fuller to the emptier parts, and the inrush of 402 I, 12| inhabitants of Pontus when they encamp on the ice to fish (they 403 I, 7 | the moon as they move, and encircle them, when the air is dense 404 IV, 10| class of things: the animals enclosed in it show that it is formed 405 I, 14| character, and in its turn enjoys a period of prosperity. 406 II, 9 | assigned to them on which they ensue. But this theory does nothing 407 II, 2 | answering this question, will ensure our having a right first 408 IV, 8 | the particles of water to enter. All those bodies in which 409 IV, 6 | clearly be dissolved by the entry into it of heat: cold, therefore, 410 IV, 8 | bodies. Let us begin by enumerating these qualities expressing 411 III, 1 | conflagration of the temple at Ephesus which we lately witnessed. 412 I, 7 | for a few days about the equinoctial circle (this one had not 413 II, 8 | Italy. The spot where this eruption occurred is still to be 414 II, 8 | the places from which the eruptions issue. This is because the 415 II, 3 | when Heracles came from Erytheia driving the oxen and gave 416 IV, 7 | black ebony the air has escaped and so earth preponderates 417 IV, 7 | enough to admit of vapour escaping: and seeing that fire solidified 418 I, 3 | what is now satisfactorily established by mathematics, they might 419 I, 12| in winter in Arabia and Ethiopia too, and that in torrents 420 II, 8 | Sicily, and those parts of Euboea which correspond to our 421 I, 6 | Again in the archonship of Euclees, son of Molon, at Athens 422 II, 8 | source changes about like the Euripus and flows inwards the quantity 423 II, 6 | find that people speak of "Euro-Noti". Its contrary is not Lips 424 I, 13| Istrus flows through all Europe into the Euxine. Most of 425 II, 2 | quickly and imperceptibly evaporates.~But the theory of the Phaedo 426 I, 14| moisture of those places almost everlasting. But as time goes on places 427 | Everywhere 428 III, 1 | thunderbolt. If the exhalation is exceedingly rare this rareness prevents 429 I, 8 | motion of a single star excites a flame, that of all the 430 II, 3 | to assimilate becomes the excrementary residue in animal bodies, 431 II, 3 | sweat; in these then is excreted (along with other matter) 432 II, 8 | the day. For when the sun exerts its full power (as it does 433 II, 8 | clearly does not at once exhaust the whole of the material 434 II, 8 | until the rest of this is exhausted the shocks must continue, 435 IV, 10| earth (for these bodies exhibit those qualities most clearly). 436 II, 9 | that water, snow, and hail existed all along and were produced 437 II, 8 | violent as the sea allowed no exit to the wind that had entered 438 I, 3 | This is just what we should expect, as it is the nearest air 439 II, 3 | condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true 440 III, 3 | 3~Let us begin by explaining the shape of the halo; why 441 II, 3 | was in them, for if you expose earth to different degrees 442 I, 3 | water dissolved.~After this exposition of the difficulties involved, 443 IV, 11| heat and most burning after exposure to fire: thus water is more 444 IV, 8 | characteristic affections which express their aptitude to be affected: 445 I, 6 | view like theirs was also expressed by Hippocrates of Chios 446 IV, 8 | enumerating these qualities expressing the aptitude or inaptitude 447 II, 3 | are poetical and so that expression of his may satisfy the requirements 448 I, 6 | immediately setting. But its light extended over a third part of the 449 II, 5 | the climate admits of its extending all round the earth. For 450 I, 8 | position is such that it extends far outside the tropic circles. 451 IV, 10| and the bodies that are extracted from them; also the substances 452 IV, 12| predominates most. If you take the extremes, matter is pure matter and 453 II, 1 | the sea is a kind of sweat exuded by the earth when the sun 454 III, 4 | southerly winds. Persons whose eyes are moist see it most clearly 455 II, 3 | salting fish.~Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, 456 I, 13| size are altogether too fabulous: however, they say that 457 III, 4 | image in front of him and facing him as he walked. This was 458 IV, 4 | determined by reference to the faculty of sense it is clearly the 459 III, 3 | wind. For if it does not fade away and is not broken up 460 III, 3 | sign of rain, but if it fades away, of fine weather, if 461 II, 5 | even here they give out and fail to penetrate far: in the 462 IV, 7 | nature of the animal having failed to get the better of it 463 III, 1 | unbroken, and the exhalation, failing to break away from the cloud 464 III, 4 | the double rainbow and the faintness of the colours in the outer 465 IV, 11| solidify when they have fallen away from it. That, then, 466 II, 2 | perish. For the fire we are familiar with lives as long as it 467 I, 14| wars; but pestilence or famine cause them too. Famines, 468 I, 14| or famine cause them too. Famines, again, are either sudden 469 II, 8 | up things in a winnowing fan), as we see from Sipylus 470 IV, 8 | because these qualities fashion bodies that we find heat 471 II, 3 | wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way 472 I, 3 | below: yet the more and the faster a thing moves, the more 473 II, 6 | different quarters, are favourable to sailors making for the 474 III, 6 | reflection from it is altogether feeble.~Some account has now been 475 II, 2 | celestial bodies do not feed on it, and that we cannot 476 II, 2 | to suppose that the sun feeds on that moisture, even if 477 II, 4 | comes from above: before we feel the wind blowing the air 478 II, 5 | but when its heat has been felt for a considerable period 479 II, 3 | Aesop in a rage with the ferryman, but not to serious inquirers. 480 I, 4 | a flame burning as in a field of stubble: if it burns 481 III, 2 | moon rainbow in more than fifty years.~We must accept from 482 IV, 11| Thus blood, semen, marrow, figjuice, and all things of the kinds 483 I, 3 | there were two elements to fill the space between the earth 484 II, 2 | place which we see the sea filling is not its natural place 485 II, 3 | separated off as it were by a filter. It is this stuff which 486 III, 1 | loose that the exhalation filtered through without affecting 487 II, 8 | of a shock is due to its filtering through readily, though 488 II, 2 | water becoming sweet by filtration.~But this view involves 489 IV, 9 | divided into many parts fin so far as its unity is made 490 II, 2 | decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every 491 I, 5 | colours generally appear when fire-colour and white are combined by 492 I, 1 | and with whirlwinds and fire-winds, and further, the recurrent 493 III, 4 | mixed with the bright white firelight: so, too, the sun appears 494 III, 3 | separated from the dry and firelike exhalation: and this is 495 III, 1 | occasion what is seen in small fires appeared on a much larger 496 III, 1 | and hurricane, and further firewinds, whirlwinds, and thunderbolts, 497 II, 2 | generated and the whole firmament grew, and the air caused 498 IV, 8 | distinguished from one another, firstly by the qualities special 499 II, 3 | river when they are quite fit to navigate in the sea. 500 I, 6 | been observed besides the five. And all of them are often