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501 I, 12| use the ice like lead to fix the reeds. Now it is in 502 I, 4 | appearance in the sky of burning flames and of shooting-stars, and 503 II, 3 | even when they are full, float in it. It almost becomes 504 I, 14| when this place will be flooded again.~But the whole vital 505 II, 4 | moist and cold (for its fluidity is due to its moistness, 506 II, 7 | admit the excess of water it forces its way in and so causes 507 III, 1 | its circular motion and forcibly snatches up whatever it 508 II, 5 | of the Etesiae and their "forerunners".~Calm is due to two causes. 509 I, 7 | that comets when frequent foreshadow wind and drought must be 510 | forty 511 II, 1 | want earth and sea to have foundations and roots of their own. 512 II, 1 | outlet. Hence the water from fountains and rivers flows of itself, 513 II, 3 | especially as that must be a mere fragment of what is left in the earth? 514 III, 4 | this colour, only small and fragmentary appearances called "rods". 515 IV, 9 | instrument or break into minute fragments when they are being divided. 516 IV, 8 | For a thing is white, fragrant, sonant, sweet, hot, cold 517 I, 7 | when our account of them is free from impossibilities. The 518 II, 3 | ordinary salt and added freely gives a sweet taste, and 519 II, 3 | caused loss to shippers freighting their ships in a river. 520 I, 7 | The fact that comets when frequent foreshadow wind and drought 521 I, 6 | to the west in winter in frosty weather when the sky was 522 I, 12| And this shows that they froze close to the earth, for 523 I, 14| the water has now become fruitful. Now the same process that 524 IV, 10| tears", and stalactites, and fruits, such as leguminous plants 525 IV, 3 | for what is cooked in a frying-pan is broiled: it is the heat 526 I, 14| for their effect may be fulfilled, but time cannot. And this 527 IV, 2 | contribute in some degrees to its fulfilment. Baths, for instance, and 528 I, 4 | adequate to every state of the fumid evaporation: but we must 529 I, 8 | hitherto.~Let us recall our fundamental principle and then explain 530 I, 13| the extreme north, beyond furthest Scythia, are the mountains 531 III, 6 | bodies which are either fusible or malleable such as iron, 532 I, 6 | in the north in the month Gamelion, the sun being about the 533 I, 8 | circles there are obvious gaps. Hence if we accept the 534 IV, 5 | dried by cooling, like a garment, where the moisture exists 535 III, 1 | into a narrow space in a gateway or a road. It often happens 536 III, 3 | be equal and those at B, GB, ZB, DB equal too. (See 537 III, 3 | to AEB from the angles; GE from G, ZE from Z, DE from 538 I, 8 | were a reflection and not a genuine affection of these this 539 II, 5 | which they now describe the geography of the earth is ridiculous. 540 II, 6 | Hellespontias, are both rainy gestes and Eurus are dry: the latter 541 I, 6 | was dim, but if you just glanced at it, it appeared brighter. 542 IV, 10| copper and tin and lead and glass and many nameless stone 543 II, 9 | Lightning, then, is the gleam of this fire, and thunder 544 IV, 4 | each serves as a sort of glue to the other-as Empedocles 545 IV, 4 | in his poem on Nature, "glueing meal together by means of 546 I, 4 | body.) Then it is called a "goat". When this does not happen 547 I, 14| who were formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes. When, 548 IV, 9 | other hand, such as wool and grain, can be softened by water 549 II, 1 | thought that this view was grander and more impressive as implying 550 III, 2 | and take some things for granted while we explain others.~ 551 IV, 12| suddenly become ashes in the grave and very old fruit preserves 552 II, 3 | contrary, when it is dry it graws moist, but when it is moist 553 I, 7 | opposition of winds. For in the gulf a north wind blew and outside 554 IV, 10| like myrrh, frankincense, gum. Amber, too, appears to 555 III, 3 | passing through the points GZD the cloud from which the 556 II, 5 | These sections alone are habitable. Beyond the tropics no one 557 I, 12| there follows a violent hailstorm, and the stones are of incredible 558 IV, 6 | first been thickened or hardened by cold often begin by becoming 559 IV, 11| for the most solid and the hardest bodies are coldest when 560 III, 4 | called "rods". But if a haze due to water or any other 561 II, 8 | facts that the sun appears hazy and is darkened in the absence 562 I, 13| water out. Hence, too, the head-waters of rivers are found to flow 563 IV, 2 | in general are signs of health, and concoction is said 564 I, 7 | compare these phenomena to a heap or mass of chaff into which 565 II, 8 | but pushes it back and heaps it up in a great mass in 566 II, 9 | with great, to the sound we hear in a flame which men call 567 II, 9 | because sight is quicker than hearing. The rowing of triremes 568 IV, 3 | grow denser, smaller, or heavier; also those which do that 569 I, 13| Strymon, the Nestus, and the Hebrus all three from Scombrus; 570 I, 14| especially about ancient Hellas, the country about Dodona 571 I, 14| formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes. When, therefore, such an 572 II, 8 | so they occur near the Hellespont and in Achaea and Sicily, 573 II, 6 | Caecias, sometimes called Hellespontias, are both rainy gestes and 574 II, 9 | laughter or the threat of Hephaestus or of Hestia. This occurs 575 II, 8 | This happened lately near Heracleia in Pontus and some time 576 II, 2 | a new sun every day, as Heraclitus says, but a new sun every 577 I, 13| flow northwards from the Hercynian mountains, which are the 578 II, 2 | carried off by the sun, while herest remains for the reason we 579 II, 9 | threat of Hephaestus or of Hestia. This occurs when the wood 580 I, 6 | the stars in the Twins and hiding it, and yet no comet was 581 II, 8 | time past at the island Hiera, one of the group called 582 III, 5 | the sides of the triangles HIP, KPI about the angle I are 583 I, 8 | theories handed down by others hitherto.~Let us recall our fundamental 584 III, 5 | revolved about the diameter HKI, the lines reflected from 585 III, 5 | determined by the triangle HKM, be produced. Then the section 586 III, 5 | Further, the angle which HM and MI make with HI will 587 III, 5 | KI equal to the triangles HMI and KMI. Their perpendiculars 588 I, 3 | opinion we are not alone in holding: it appears to be an old 589 I, 12| ice to fish (they cut a hole in the ice and then fish) 590 I, 14| strangely enough, lower and hollower than the land to the seaward 591 I, 14| what is called Thebes, as Homer, too, shows, modern though 592 III, 5 | KPI about the angle I are homologous. Therefore, HP too will 593 II, 8 | earthquake. The shocks are horizontal like a tremor; except occasionally, 594 IV, 2 | necessarily become thicker and hotter, for the action of heat 595 III, 2 | days it is seen at every hour of the day, in the summer 596 III, 1 | away and falling on the houses. For we must recognize that 597 II, 1 | of it. Others, wiser in human knowledge, give an account 598 I, 13| At this spot, about three hundred stadia from land, there 599 II, 1 | outside the straits, and the Hyrcanian and Caspian seas are distinct 600 I, 12| small size and rest on the iar (the water swimming on the 601 I, 13| the other, this ingenious idea is plainly false. What requires 602 II, 3 | along with other matter) an identical substance to which this 603 II, 3 | whether it eternally exists as identically the same body, or whether 604 II, 9 | ensues.~This theory is due to ignorance of the theory of reflection, 605 II, 2 | must all of it simply be ignored, since the quantity of water 606 II | Book II~ 607 III | Book III~ 608 III, 4 | and also by differences of illumination. Thus embroiderers say that 609 II, 9 | The rowing of triremes illustrates this: the oars are going 610 IV, 3 | they lack a name; for art imitates nature. For instance, the 611 I, 1 | begin by discussing our immediate subject.~ 612 I, 14| periods of time which are so immense compared with the length 613 III, 6 | is not dissipated in the immensity of space. It cannot subsist 614 IV, 10| it has been heated and is immersed in water.) Some of these 615 I, 3 | stars in the upper region impart heat to the earth and its 616 II, 2 | wide place it quickly and imperceptibly evaporates.~But the theory 617 III, 3 | because the condensation they imply is so insignificant as to 618 I, 6 | over so great a space is an impossibility.~An objection that tells 619 IV, 9 | of all its parts). Those impressibles that retain the shape impressed 620 II, 1 | view was grander and more impressive as implying that our earth 621 III, 6 | these originate from the imprisonment of the vaporous exhalation 622 I, 7 | explanation of phenomena inaccessible to observation to have been 623 I, 13| Achelous flows from Pindus, the Inachus from the same mountain; 624 IV, 12| The parts of plants, and inanimate bodies like copper and silver, 625 IV, 8 | expressing the aptitude or inaptitude of a thing to be affected 626 IV, 9 | water and all liquids are incapable of being squeezed.~Things 627 IV, 5 | contributing to destruction or incidentally in the manner described 628 III, 1 | originates in the failure of an incipient hurricane to escape from 629 I, 3 | bulk of the earth (which includes the whole volume of water) 630 IV, 8 | incompressible, combustible or incombustible; to be apt or inapt to give 631 IV, 9 | dry to moist in them be incongruous (as in the case of pottery). 632 IV, 3 | the thing that is ripening incorporates some of the matter in itself, 633 II, 3 | becomes warm on its way by incorporating with itself a great quantity 634 III, 5 | a semicircle, and go on increasing, while the invisible arc 635 I, 12| hailstorm, and the stones are of incredible size, and angular in shape. 636 IV, 4 | another hard and soft are indefinable, because it is a matter 637 II, 5 | state of change is always indefinite and therefore liable to 638 III, 1 | lately witnessed. There independent sheets of flame left the 639 III, 6 | of rain than the rods; it indicates, more than they do, that 640 II, 8 | years it gives premonitory indications in the same place. The severity 641 IV, 3 | So, too, certain forms of indigestion are like imperfect boiling. 642 III, 4 | whose sight was faint and indistinct. He always saw an image 643 I, 3 | actually far smaller than some individual stars. As for the water, 644 I, 13| From it, too, flows the Indus, the volume of whose stream 645 IV, 9 | and consequently does not inebriate as ordinary wine does. It 646 I, 14| ago. Hence it is easy to infer that it, too, like most 647 I, 3 | not once nor twice, but infinitely often.~Now there are some 648 I, 3 | whole volume of water) is infinitesimal in comparison with the whole 649 I, 3 | reflected rays disperse in the infinity of space and are lost. To 650 I, 3 | is able to dissolve and inflame the air; indeed, moving 651 II, 9 | exhalation that is ejected is inflamed and burns with a thin and 652 IV, 2 | perfecting, though external influences may contribute in some degrees 653 II, 3 | on the other hand, comb ing from moist regions, is full 654 I, 13| than in the other, this ingenious idea is plainly false. What 655 II, 2 | does not increase though innumerable and vast rivers are flowing 656 II, 3 | ferryman, but not to serious inquirers. Whatever made the sea remain 657 III, 3 | condensation they imply is so insignificant as to be barren.~ 658 I, 6 | dissolved. Democritus however, insists upon the truth of his view 659 IV, 9 | but not continuous, and insufficient in quantity to give rise 660 III, 1 | while the woodwork remained intact because its texture was 661 I, 12| only when the cold is less intense. And in general hailstorms 662 IV, 3 | and consequently get more intensely dry. In this way the outer 663 II, 9 | between this case and that of interception in denser substances such 664 IV, 9 | broken and without the parts interchanging position as happens in the 665 II, 2 | the earth is pierced by intercommunicating channels and that the original 666 I, 14| these changes is that the interior of the earth grows and decays, 667 IV, 9 | owe this property to the interlocking of their parts when they 668 II, 5 | melt them. So they blow intermittently till the true Etesiae come 669 II, 8 | is on the point of being interposed, but the light and heat 670 II, 9 | intervene where their density is interrupted. This then, is thunder, 671 I, 14| on uniformly and without interruption. Now when this has been 672 III, 5 | Let this be NM. Then the intersection of the circumferences is 673 II, 9 | clouds and the hollows that intervene where their density is interrupted. 674 II, 8 | really form part of it: the intervening sea is not enough to make 675 IV, 1 | natural becoming is a change introduced by these powers into the 676 I, 7 | formed when the upper motion introduces into a gathering of this 677 I, 1 | carried out.~After this introduction let us begin by discussing 678 II, 8 | by its settling down the inundation.~Earthquakes are local and 679 I, 14| places where the sea has invaded the land. But we must not 680 II, 1 | be.~The old writers who invented theogonies say that the 681 III, 4 | the outer one and their inverted order. When sight is strained 682 IV, 11| 11~We must investigate in the light of the results 683 I, 13| plainly false. What requires investigation is this: the nature of wind 684 II, 2 | is a process of becoming, involving a constant interchange of 685 II, 9 | the sound is due to the irregularity of the clouds and the hollows 686 I, 6 | not belong to the comet iself, but is occasionally assumed 687 II, 8 | and some time past at the island Hiera, one of the group 688 IV, 1 | the other hand, both in isolation and when present together 689 IV, 3 | the body is too great for it-to-be mastered, as in the case 690 I, 6 | one another.~Some of the Italians called Pythagoreans say 691 II, 8 | reached some of the towns in Italy. The spot where this eruption 692 I, 13| can be seen by looking at itineraries: what is recorded in them 693 IV | Book IV~ 694 IV, 3 | be determined: hence the juice of raw things is thin, cold 695 II, 9 | fingers are heavy but often jump upwards: so these things 696 I, 6 | have ourselves observed Jupiter coinciding with one of the 697 I, 14| cold mountains catch and keep and create most water: whereas 698 I, 8 | mirror and the object move, keeping the same distance from the 699 III, 5 | to the triangles HMI and KMI. Their perpendiculars will 700 III, 5 | sides of the triangles HIP, KPI about the angle I are homologous. 701 I, 11| region near the earth is lacking. For, as we said, to snow 702 IV, 1 | everything in as far as it lacks heat is cold, both heat 703 II, 1 | source from which waters are ladled as it were from a vessel, 704 III, 4 | colours when they work by lamplight, and use the wrong ones.~ 705 IV, 12| non-homogeneous too, and lastly the bodies made up of these, 706 II, 9 | flame which men call the laughter or the threat of Hephaestus 707 II, 8 | All these are necessary laws. Next we must find out what 708 II, 6 | way. Let us also begin by laying down that those things are 709 I, 6 | third part of the sky like a leap, so that people called it 710 IV, 10| stalactites, and fruits, such as leguminous plants and corn. For things 711 IV, 9 | unity is made up of many lengths it is apt to be split, in 712 II, 8 | They are caused by the lessening of the warmth from the moon 713 I, 14| stopped making the canal, lest the sea should mix with 714 I, 10| a great height but soon lets it fall again. A second 715 I, 14| sea. For the same reason Libya-the country of Ammon-is, strangely 716 I, 10| too heavy a burden cannot lift it to a great height but 717 II, 3 | the bladder (its extreme lightness proves this; for everything 718 I, 4 | exhalation below a lamp and it lights the lower lamp from the 719 | likely 720 IV, 1 | whole; and all other waters likewise. Animals too are generated 721 IV, 9 | scales that grow on stout limbs.) The fumes of fat are a 722 II, 5 | the inhabited region is limited in breadth, while the climate 723 II, 5 | does not even reach the limits of the region we live in. 724 II, 8 | the neighbouring town of Lipara and reached some of the 725 IV, 6 | 6~Liquefaction is, first, condensation 726 II, 8 | weather, a little, light, long-drawn cloud is seen, like a long 727 IV, 9 | to admit fire and their longitudinal pores contain moisture weaker 728 III, 4 | promontories in the sea "loom" when there is a south-east 729 I, 3 | infinity of space and are lost. To explain this we must 730 I, 2 | among them all, earth the lowest, and two elements correspond 731 II, 2 | long distance through a lowying country, for by their situation 732 II, 8 | the earth swelled up and a lump like a mound rose with a 733 II, 3 | gives them salt, not in lumps but loose and light like 734 II, 5 | winds here is due to our lying near the north. Yet even 735 II, 3 | In the neighbourhood of Lyncus, too, there is a spring 736 II, 9 | hence the phenomenon occurs mainly by night: the appearance 737 III, 2 | colours which painters cannot manufacture: for there are colours which 738 IV, 6 | they can be softened-though manufactured iron does melt, to the point 739 II, 8 | again, it must be most marked before the more violent 740 II, 8 | breaks in great waves the marks left on the sand are very 741 IV, 11| putrefaction. Thus blood, semen, marrow, figjuice, and all things 742 IV, 1 | what affects a thing does master it. Nor does that which 743 IV, 1 | the hot and the cold are masters of the matter they generate 744 IV, 3 | their heat has not got the mastery in them and compacted them. 745 I, 3 | satisfactorily established by mathematics, they might have given up 746 I, 8 | separated off a kind of matter-and of this matter we assert 747 | me 748 IV, 4 | poem on Nature, "glueing meal together by means of water." 749 IV, 3 | liquid outside. Hence boiled meats are drier than broiled; 750 II, 5 | round the earth. For we meet with no excessive heat or 751 III, 3 | right angles to AEB and meeting at a single point E. So 752 IV, 10| since we must include among "meltables" those bodies which are 753 IV, 12| called flutes: for these members, too, are instruments of 754 I, 14| mentions; which implies that Memphis did not yet exist, or at 755 I, 14| Thebes is the place that he mentions; which implies that Memphis 756 I, 6 | horizon. This is the case with Mercury too; because it only rises 757 II, 3 | earth", like Empedicles. Metaphors are poetical and so that 758 II, 1 | view of many of the ancient meteorologists. They believed that the 759 I, 1 | comets, and the movements of meteors. It studies also all the 760 I, 1 | in accordance with the method we have followed, of animals 761 II, 4 | own place while the moist migrates to the next district or 762 II, 7 | before him Anaximenes of Miletus, and later Democritus of 763 III, 6 | by the unevenness of the mirror-as regards colour, not form. 764 II, 2 | by moisture are absurdly mistaken. Some go on to say that 765 III, 4 | say that they often make mistakes in their colours when they 766 III, 4 | flame gives off and which mixes with the air and makes it 767 I, 14| Thebes, as Homer, too, shows, modern though he is in relation 768 IV, 3 | before, that the various modes in which natural heat and 769 II, 3 | water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, 770 IV, 6 | dissolved by water, which is the moist-cold, while bodies solidified 771 IV, 9 | heat. Hence they do not moisten things but rather colour 772 I, 6 | archonship of Euclees, son of Molon, at Athens there appeared 773 II, 2 | might all disappear in a moment-as for instance if one were 774 III, 4 | reflected back to him. Its morbid condition made it so weak 775 I, 8 | midnight, sometimes in the morning. But in each case the same 776 II, 8 | swelled up and a lump like a mound rose with a noise: finally 777 I, 13| reason is that Arcadia is mountainous and there are no channels 778 I, 14| process. However, all the mouths of the Nile, with the single 779 IV, 9 | in the direction of the mover. Some things are tractile, 780 | my 781 II, 6 | would be a wind blowing from N, the point which is diametrically 782 IV, 10| by cold. In iron, horn, nails, bones, sinews, wood, hair, 783 I, 13| Mountain the two greatest of named rivers, the river called 784 IV, 10| lead and glass and many nameless stone are of water: for 785 III, 1 | resistance due either to the narrowness or to a contrary current, 786 II, 1 | observed, but where the land narrows and contracts the sea the 787 II, 2 | according to their several natures. Now just as here it would 788 II, 3 | when they are quite fit to navigate in the sea. This circumstance 789 I, 10| consequently more cold is needed to freeze it.~Both dew and 790 III, 4 | that black is in a sort the negation of sight: an object is black 791 II, 6 | winds are succeeded by their neighbours in the direction of the 792 I, 13| mountain; the Strymon, the Nestus, and the Hebrus all three 793 I, 14| always lies most in the newly formed land. But in time 794 I, 7 | Again in the archonship of Nicomachus a comet appeared for a few 795 II, 8 | winds before eclipses: at nightfall if the eclipse is at midnight, 796 II, 5 | because the cold pf the nights checks the melting of the 797 III, 5 | circumference. Let this be NM. Then the intersection of 798 IV, 9 | remains, or hard, like copper. Non-impressible bodies are either hard, 799 IV, 9 | which do not are called "non-inflammable". Those fumigable bodies 800 IV, 8 | non-tractile, malleable or non-malleable, to be fissile or non-fissile, 801 IV, 8 | squeezed; to be tractile or non-tractile, malleable or non-malleable, 802 IV, 12| cause is art, but in the nonhomogeneous bodies nature or some other 803 III, 3 | is allowed to attain its normal state, it is naturally a 804 III, 4 | distant and condensed air normally does, and his sight could 805 I, 13| mountains that lie to the northeast, both as regards its extent 806 II, 5 | Aethiopia to Maeotis and the northernmost Scythians by a ratio of 807 I, 13| the remaining rivers flow northwards from the Hercynian mountains, 808 II, 5 | one near our upper, or nothern pole, the other near the 809 II, 4 | Boreae, those from the south Noti.)~The course of winds is 810 III, 4 | following fact further is worth noticing. When there is a cloud near 811 II, 2 | always supply the sun with nourishment and that without it he must 812 II, 3 | Does the sea always remain numerically one and consisting of the 813 IV, 7 | milk, and such milk is not nutritive and is more like water. 814 I, 13| mountains the Aegon and the Nyses; and from the so-called 815 III, 4 | hand corresponds to the oar.~That the colours of the 816 II, 9 | that lightning is nothing objective but merely an appearance. 817 I, 4 | circumstances an object always moves obliquely. Hence the motion of "shooting-stars" 818 I, 3 | of winds it is actually observable that they originate in marshy 819 I, 7 | from impossibilities. The observations before us suggest the following 820 II, 5 | extent of the sea presents an obstacle anywhere. The records of 821 III, 6 | the other.~Rods then are occasioned by the unevenness of the 822 I, 13| inhabitable regions which are occupied by many nations and in which 823 II, 8 | spot where this eruption occurred is still to be seen.~Indeed, 824 I, 9 | remains the same. So if "Oceanus" had some secret meaning 825 III, 6 | melted, and realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, 826 III, 1 | moves bodily, then we have ocular proof that smoke is exhalation. 827 II, 5 | surface of the earth and offering little resistance evaporate 828 I, 7 | forms independently, indeed oftener than round one of the regular 829 II, 6 | some call Argestes, some Olympias, and some Sciron. This blows 830 II, 8 | from the earth: but the onrush of the sea in a great mass 831 II, 5 | solstice: for from that time onwards the wind tends to blow continuously.) 832 I, 13| saturated sponge, make the water ooze out and trickle together 833 II, 4 | sources from the water that oozes from the earth. Every wind 834 IV, 8 | cold and that these agents operate by thickening and solidifying. 835 I, 3 | call it "ether".~For the um opinions appear in cycles among men 836 I, 7 | and the wave was due to an opposition of winds. For in the gulf 837 II, 6 | position of the winds, their oppositions, which can blow simultaneously 838 III, 2 | accept from the theory of optics the fact that sight is reflected 839 III, 2 | the red and the green an orange colour is often seen.~Mock 840 II, 5 | clearly correspond in the ordering of its winds as well as 841 IV, 10| water, and which of both.~Of organized bodies some are liquid, 842 IV, 1 | secreted, being natural, organizes the particles secreted with 843 II, 2 | fixed seat but is always oscillating about the centre. Its motion 844 IV, 4 | as a sort of glue to the other-as Empedocles said in his poem 845 | ours 846 I, 14| a large scale.~Men whose outlook is narrow suppose the cause 847 II, 8 | tide, corresponding to the outward flow; especially towards 848 IV, 6 | liable to distortion in the ovens for that reason.~Now of 849 II, 8 | many men do not succeed in overcoming the movements of the patients. 850 I, 14| whereas if the mountains that overhang the sources of rivers are 851 II, 2 | consider the sun only and overlook the question how the rest 852 II, 6 | from close at hand, they overpower the other winds and stop 853 II, 6 | and one of the two must be overpowered and cease. Winds that are 854 I, 11| and unless the cold were overpowering it the cloud would not freeze. 855 II, 8 | cools the evaporations and overpowers them by its weight and so 856 II, 8 | wind, will burst out and overwhelm the land. This is what happened 857 IV, 9 | it is tractile. Bodies owe this property to the interlocking 858 II, 8 | one might suppose that it owed its power to produce such 859 II, 1 | becomes salt, so the sea owes its saltness to the admixture 860 II, 3 | from Erytheia driving the oxen and gave the inhabitants 861 III, 5 | be joined with the point P by the lines HP, KP, these 862 II, 7 | notion of contraction by packing together implies this. So 863 II, 3 | fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a 864 I, 12| difficulties and those which seem paradoxical.~Hail is ice, and water 865 I, 13| from the mountain called Parnassus, admittedly the greatest 866 IV, 4 | the body; thus some bodies partake more of the dry, others 867 I, 14| formerly. But this is only partially true. It is true that many 868 I, 3 | into water.~But whenever a particle of air grows heavy, the 869 II, 8 | wind and the shape of the passages through which it flows. 870 IV, 12| certain power of action or passion-just like flesh and sinew. But 871 IV, 5 | of two qualities and the patient is acted on in virtue of 872 I, 13| are visible up to the last peak. From Pyrene (this is a 873 I, 13| Again, the sun shines on its peaks for a third part of the 874 I, 13| parts of the earth: in the Peloponnesus, for instance, there are 875 II, 5 | they give out and fail to penetrate far: in the southern sea 876 II, 5 | warmer than the north and penetrates farther to the north than 877 I, 14| because the neighbouring peoples settled in the land gradually 878 II, 8 | evaporation left to have any perceptible effect on the earth at all.~ 879 II, 3 | earth through which they percolate preserves the character 880 II, 1 | continually forming and percolating gathers.) Stationary water 881 I, 13| water it contains by gradual percolation of many drops, little by 882 IV, 2 | say that a thing has been perfected and has come to be itself. 883 IV, 2 | proper heat of an object perfects the corresponding passive 884 IV, 12| really is itself when it can perform its function; an eye, for 885 II, 2 | ascent were really like that performed by flame as it comes into 886 II, 2 | becomes water again and so perishes; on the contrary, all the 887 I, 3 | fire, and each of them is perpetually in a state of change.~So 888 III, 4 | generally with southerly winds. Persons whose eyes are moist see 889 IV, 9 | softened? Because natron is pervaded throughout by pores so that 890 IV, 1 | when a thing’s nature is perverted). Hence everything, except 891 I, 14| sudden are due to wars; but pestilence or famine cause them too. 892 II, 5 | at night because the cold pf the nights checks the melting 893 IV, 3 | boiling". Such then is the pfcies of concoction known as " 894 II, 2 | evaporates.~But the theory of the Phaedo about rivers and the sea 895 I, 8 | from heaven at the time of Phaethon’s downfall. Others say that 896 I, 13| From the Caucasus flows the Phasis, and very many other great 897 II, 8 | see from Sipylus and the Phlegraean plain and the district in 898 II, 2 | is said that the earth is pierced by intercommunicating channels 899 I, 13| the Achelous flows from Pindus, the Inachus from the same 900 I, 13| they collect the water in pipes and trenches, as if the 901 II, 9 | tendency upwards. Just as the pips that we squeeze between 902 II, 8 | Sipylus and the Phlegraean plain and the district in Liguria, 903 I, 13| water rarely appears in the plains. For mountains and high 904 III, 5 | difference which of the planes passing through the line 905 I, 8 | appearance of comets as plausible we must assume that the 906 I, 7 | origin is plainly due to the plentiful supply of that secretion. 907 II, 3 | Empedicles. Metaphors are poetical and so that expression of 908 III, 1 | thunderbolt from scorching and the poets call it "bright": if the 909 IV, 3 | heat implies, as we have pointed out, the presence of cold.) 910 II, 1 | been left standing, marshy pools, for instance, and lakes, 911 I, 14| could only support a small population, whereas the land of Mycenae 912 IV, 9 | squeezing which have empty pores-empty, that is, of the stuff of 913 II, 8 | the wind; sometimes they portend earthquakes but sometimes 914 II, 8 | seems to "bellow" as the portentmongers say.~Water has been known 915 I, 12| who heard and saw them as portents of some catastrophe. Sometimes, 916 I, 4 | fire at the sides in small portions but continuously with the 917 I, 3 | hot, cold, dry, moist, and possessed of whatever other qualities 918 IV, 10| quantity of the sediment it possesses.) The liquids that are thickened 919 II, 1 | prove that the sea cannot possibly have springs. The waters 920 III, 1 | the development of either potentiality appears, that of which there 921 I, 12| in the ice and then fish) pour warm water round their reeds 922 II, 9 | they are not generated but pre-exist, the same must be true of 923 IV, 1 | air is weaker than that pre-existing in the object, and so it 924 IV, 9 | mastered by fire. Of stones the precious stone called carbuncle is 925 IV, 11| holds good: if its matter is predominantly water a body is cold (water 926 IV, 11| Consequently cold must predominate in every body that consists 927 II, 3 | choice, they chose salt in preference to fish. They get the salt 928 IV, 8 | in which heat and earth preponderate, like honey and must (for 929 II, 1 | and roots of their own. Presumably they thought that this view 930 IV, 2 | other cases it leads to some presupposed state which is attained 931 I, 7 | was dry and north winds prevailed, and the wave was due to 932 I, 12| fact that the water has previously been warmed contributes 933 II, 7 | This theory is perhaps too primitive to require refutation. It 934 II, 9 | that lightning actually is prior to thunder and does not 935 IV, 7 | oil presents the greatest problem. If water preponderated 936 III, 3 | process of condensation is proceeding which must, when it is carried 937 III, 6 | the air is ripe for the production of water. Further a mock 938 III, 4 | appearance of colours is profoundly affected by their juxtaposition 939 III, 3 | reasons, but they are not prognostic in the same way because 940 III, 4 | could not push it back. So promontories in the sea "loom" when there 941 I, 10| motion of the air is more pronounced at a height, and this dissolves 942 I, 4 | because the condensation which propels them inclines downwards. 943 IV, 9 | tractile. Bodies owe this property to the interlocking of their 944 II, 9 | the. to take place on a proportionate scale. Boiling is due to 945 I, 3 | excess in volume is not proportionately great where water dissolves 946 I, 3 | treat of the air, as we proposed, and then go on to these 947 I, 14| turn enjoys a period of prosperity. For these places dry up 948 II, 2 | this rate we shall get the proverbial rivers flowing upwards, 949 I, 12| having frozen in the air, provided that the freezing takes 950 II, 4 | when the sun approaches it provokes the moist evaporation, and 951 I, 3 | might have given up this puerile opinion. For it is altogether 952 I, 6 | Hippocrates of Chios and his pupil Aeschylus. Only they say 953 IV, 10| and the bodies that are purely of earth solidify by the 954 III, 4 | fact that the rainbow is purest when the cloud is blackest; 955 IV, 6 | sinks to the bottom and is purged away: when this has been 956 IV, 6 | repeated often because the purification of the metal involves great 957 I, 3 | air, but varying degree of purity and in kind, especially 958 IV, 2 | in boils when it becomes purulent, and tears when they become 959 III, 4 | and his sight could not push it back. So promontories 960 II, 8 | wind is bringing on, but pushes it back and heaps it up 961 IV, 1 | growing old or growing dry. Putrescence is the end of all these 962 I, 12| water quickly, begin by putting it in the sun. So the inhabitants 963 I, 1 | involve. Of these things some puzzle us, while others admit of 964 II, 2 | people should have been puzzled by the old question why 965 I, 13| up to the last peak. From Pyrene (this is a mountain towards 966 IV, 6 | the better iron. The stone pyrimachus, too, melts and forms into 967 III, 6 | like savours, due to a qualitative change in actual water. 968 I, 3 | air would far exceed the quantitu required to maintain its 969 I, 9 | the higher region, in part quenched through rising so far into 970 I, 11| from a small area, as its quick formation and scanty quantity 971 II, 3 | this kind of earth descends quickest.~This, too, is why the sea 972 IV, 8 | preponderance of air, like oil and quicksilver, and all viscous substances 973 II, 8 | influence which restrained and quieted the air weakens and the 974 III, 4 | rainbow, A the inner one; let R stand for the red colour, 975 II, 3 | appropriate enough to Aesop in a rage with the ferryman, but not 976 I, 12| suddenly. (For this reason rain-drops are much larger on warm 977 II, 7 | that when a quantity of rain-water is added to this an earthquake 978 III, 4 | union of which constitutes a raindrop, is necessarily a better 979 II, 4 | where there is the greatest rainfall, just as green wood gives 980 III, 4 | when it is on the point of raining and the air in the clouds 981 I, 12| of it, both those which raise no difficulties and those 982 IV, 10| Wine is a liquid which raises a difficulty: for it is 983 II, 8 | evaporation which dissolves and rarefies the air begins to withdraw 984 II, 8 | greatest force. Again, the rarest body, that which can most 985 III, 2 | This opinion was due to the rarity of the occurrence: it was 986 I, 8 | at rest, but at different rates of speed and so not always 987 I, 6 | Further, we can also give a rational proof of our point. It is 988 I, 12| we see that warm and cold react upon one another by recoil. 989 III, 6 | the air in the south is readier to turn into water than 990 II, 9 | reflection, which is the real cause of that phenomenon. 991 III, 6 | that cannot be melted, and realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, 992 I, 3 | sort of ebullition; but in reality, of what we call air, the 993 III, 4 | since these conditions are realizable there will be an appearance 994 IV, 3 | either of these conditions is realized the heat in the surrounding 995 I, 6 | of its circle before it reappears at the same point. It gets 996 II, 3 | cause here), or some other reason-clearly the same thing must make 997 I, 14| advancing in one place and receding in another it is clear that 998 I, 13| but in many places. They receive a great deal of water falling 999 IV, 9 | part of it, for there is a reciprocal change of place of all its 1000 II, 4 | happens that the evaporations reciprocally take one another’s place