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1001  IV,  5 |       recognize to be cold), must be reckoned rather as a passive quality.
1002   I,  14|           lapse of time destroys all record even before the last inhabitants
1003  II,  5 |            an obstacle anywhere. The records of journeys by sea and land
1004  II,  3 |              once you must admit its recurrence. If you stop the sun’s course
1005   I,  1 |         fire-winds, and further, the recurrent affections produced in these
1006  II,  3 |            by condensation, and must redescend to the earth in rain. This
1007  IV,  9 |            or straightened, like the reed or the withy, some cannot,
1008  IV,  4 |              sense are determined by reference to the faculty of sense
1009   I,  3 |           full of fire, and that men referred to those regions when they
1010 III,  4 |            red: for the largest band reflects most sight to the sun, and
1011  II,  7 |             too primitive to require refutation. It is absurd to think of
1012  II,  2 |         difficulty which made people regard the sea as the origin and
1013  II,  3 |          must always go on with such regularity as the sublunary world admits
1014  IV,  3 |        matter in itself, and some it rejects. So much for the definition
1015 III,  4 |            the sun and the cloud are related in the way described and
1016 III,  4 |            the sea involves the same relative positions as that in the
1017   I,  3 |           the stars, nor to the rays relected from the earth. It is these
1018  II,  1 |              and the moon, while the remainder forms the sea. So the sea
1019   I,  14|             long time and men do not remember who came first, or when,
1020   I,  14|              to the last, and no one remembers and the lapse of time destroys
1021  II,  3 |            will disappear in the end reminds us of Aesop’s tales. His
1022  II,  6 |             things specifically most remote from one another are specific
1023 III,  4 |             then the reflection must render the colour of the object
1024 III,  4 |           that a mirror of this kind renders the colour of an object
1025   I,  12|             and that in torrents and repeatedly on the same day. For the
1026  II,  5 |              there is none as yet to replace it.~Both the setting and
1027   I,  13|            wineskin, or, as painters represent the winds, as drawing their
1028  IV,  4 |         elements earth is especially representative of the dry, water of the
1029  II,  6 |               which is round, but it represents the zone in which we live;
1030  IV,  3 |           seeds in fruit are able to reproduce the fruit in which they
1031  II,  3 |    expression of his may satisfy the requirements of a poem, but as a scientific
1032  II,  5 |              thoroughly frozen parts requiring greater heat to melt them.
1033 III,  6 |         colour of the cloud seems to reside in the water, but in the
1034  IV,  9 |           themselves must be able to resist the action of water, whereas
1035 III,  1 |           actually burn it. Further, resisting substances are affected,
1036   I,  3 |            all things do that can be resolved into a common and ultimate
1037  IV,  8 |       rest-water and earth and their respective exhalations shut up in the
1038  IV,  9 |            the surface of a thing in response to pressure or a blow, in
1039  IV,  8 |             as gold, silver, and the rest-water and earth and their respective
1040 III,  5 |                Let A be a hemisphere resting on the circle of the horizon,
1041  II,  8 |               So the influence which restrained and quieted the air weakens
1042  II,  7 |              maintain that the earth rests on the air because of its
1043  II,  4 |             course is clear from the resulting phenomena themselves, for
1044   I,  3 |              it actually acquires or retains one of these in virtue of
1045 III,  5 |            then, the semicircle A be revolved about the diameter HKI,
1046  IV,  2 |           and tears when they become rheum, and so with the rest.~Concoction
1047   I,  13|             are the mountains called Rhipae. The stories about their
1048   I,  13|          many rivers, too, flow from Rhodope.~All other rivers would
1049  II,  5 |            geography of the earth is ridiculous. They depict the inhabited
1050 III,  1 |              space in a gateway or a road. It often happens in such
1051  II,  9 |            you strike the sea with a rod by night and the water is
1052  II,  9 |            quicker than hearing. The rowing of triremes illustrates
1053 III,  6 |              realgar, and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, and the other
1054   I,  14|             and clayey, these rivers run dry earlier. We must recognize
1055 III,  1 |          split, and a quantity of it rushed in a body from the place
1056   I,  14|              the ships which can now sail into it to trade is much
1057  II,  6 |          quarters, are favourable to sailors making for the same point.~
1058  II,  3 |            The same thing is done in salting fish.~Again if, as is fabled,
1059  II,  8 |          waves the marks left on the sand are very thick and crooked,
1060  II,  1 |             sea than the Aegean; the Sardinian and Tyrrhenic being the
1061   I,  3 |           had considered what is now satisfactorily established by mathematics,
1062  II,  8 |       naturally moves farthest. Wind satisfies these conditions in the
1063   I,  13|              over the country like a saturated sponge, make the water ooze
1064  IV,  12|             bowl, or a box. So here, save that in the examples given
1065  IV,  3 |           and heats them changes the savour in the liquid into a given
1066  II,  6 |       returns upon itself. Hence the saying: "Bringing it on himself
1067  IV,  9 |             thick wings of birds and scales that grow on stout limbs.)
1068   I,  11|              its quick formation and scanty quantity show.~The relation
1069   I,  7 |               as Hippocrates and his school say, to the sun, but to
1070   I,  8 |    Anaxagoras, Democritus, and their schools say that the milky way is
1071  II,  6 |              some Olympias, and some Sciron. This blows from the point
1072   I,  13|            the Hebrus all three from Scombrus; many rivers, too, flow
1073 III,  1 |        prevents the thunderbolt from scorching and the poets call it "bright":
1074  IV,  10|          skins by the smoke that you scrape it to drink. If all wine
1075   I,  8 |              the stars and the earth screens none of them.~(3) There
1076  II,  5 |         Maeotis and the northernmost Scythians by a ratio of more than
1077  II,  8 |     analogous to this happens on the sea-shore. When the sea breaks in
1078  II,  4 |    surrounding country often getting seasonable or even excessive rains
1079   I,  14|        hollower than the land to the seaward of it. For it is clear that
1080  II,  1 |              of this division we can sec that the sea cannot have
1081   I,  9 |             So if "Oceanus" had some secret meaning in early writers,
1082  II,  3 |              it is moist it does not secrete anything at all. How then
1083  II,  8 |             the surface of the earth secretes far more of the evaporation
1084  IV,  9 |              give off fumes give off secretions of the nature of air by
1085 III,  5 |           HKM, be produced. Then the section of the sphere will be a
1086  IV,  3 |         ripening is perfect when the seeds in fruit are able to reproduce
1087  IV,  7 |              of vapour escaping: and seeing that fire solidified it,
1088 III,  4 |           another, standing outside, sees a rainbow where the sun’
1089  II,  5 |              pole give corresponding segments of the earth. These sections
1090 III,  6 |            are generated before that segregation occurs. Hence, they are
1091   I,  14|         changed its course. Here the Selli dwelt and those who were
1092 III,  5 |             by the horizon will be a semi-circle; if the luminous body is
1093 III,  2 |              things in the theory of sensation, and take some things for
1094 III,  2 |             it is the mirror will be sensibly divisible since divisibility
1095   I,  13|               from the last a branch separates off and flows into lake
1096  IV,  9 |           breaking is a division and separation into large parts, comminution
1097   I,  9 |         flows down: and the order of sequence, at all events, in this
1098  II,  3 |             the ferryman, but not to serious inquirers. Whatever made
1099  IV,  4 |           dry determinable, and each serves as a sort of glue to the
1100   I,  14|            to have become navigable; Sesostris is said to have been the
1101  II,  5 |            begin to blow only on the seventieth day because the sun is distant
1102  II,  8 |   indications in the same place. The severity of the earthquake is determined
1103   I,  8 |             of those stars which are shaded by the earth from the sun’
1104  II,  3 |            assumes various kinds and shades of flavour. It becomes full
1105  II,  8 |        occurs when the wind which is shaking the earth does not entirely
1106  II,  1 |             basin), and to their own shallowness. For we find the sea getting
1107  II,  8 |           hollow masses of different shapes it makes various noises,
1108 III,  1 |         witnessed. There independent sheets of flame left the main fire
1109 III,  1 |        happened that the bronze of a shield has been melted while the
1110  II,  3 |            before now caused loss to shippers freighting their ships in
1111   I,  4 |              Or is a "star" when it "shoots" a single body that is thrown?
1112  IV,  4 |            hard and that which falls short of it soft.~
1113   I,  12|            hailstones because of the shortness of their fall. For the same
1114   I,  12|              showers more violent. A shower is said to be more violent
1115   I,  12|             days than in winter, and showers more violent. A shower is
1116 III,  1 |           has merely reduced them to shreds.~Such evidence is enough
1117  II,  8 |            as it does about noon) it shuts the evaporation into the
1118  II,  3 |      Sometimes it becomes acid as in Sicania, a part of Sicily. There
1119  II,  1 |              Aegean than Pontus, the Sicilian sea than the Aegean; the
1120  II,  2 |        analogous! Really there is no similarity. A flame is a process of
1121   I,  7 |             to have a shooting-star: similarly when it stands still we
1122  IV,  10|            iron, horn, nails, bones, sinews, wood, hair, leaves, bark,
1123  II,  3 |          water and not in each river singly? For the sea, differing
1124  II,  8 |       winnowing fan), as we see from Sipylus and the Phlegraean plain
1125   I,  14|            is much lower than it was sixty years ago. Hence it is easy
1126  IV,  10|       instance, flesh, bones, sinew, skin, viscera, hair, fibres,
1127  IV,  10|             it is so dried up in its skins by the smoke that you scrape
1128  II,  6 |            forming and leave a clear sky-unless they happen to be very cold.
1129  II,  8 |             the sea is calm they are slight and straight (because the
1130  II,  1 |           instance, communicates but slightly with the ocean outside the
1131  II,  8 |              driven on that the wind slips away into the void beyond.~
1132   I,  3 |              of the moon is near but slow, whereas the sun’s motion
1133 III,  1 |             so as to blacken it: the slower one does blacken the object,
1134   I,  6 |            other stars because it is slowest to get clear of the sun
1135  II,  3 |          change more rapidly or more slowly than others; and they all
1136  IV,  10|           differ in respect of their smell, taste, and colour.~By homogeneous
1137  II,  5 |            heat and that of the sun, smokes and vapours. They abate
1138 III,  4 |          look darker and smaller and smoother, why the reflection of clouds
1139 III,  1 |         circular motion and forcibly snatches up whatever it meets.~When
1140  II,  3 |           live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake
1141  IV,  9 |            in water, for they can be soaked. (It is true that though
1142  II,  7 |            whereas the rain makes it sodden and destroys its cohesion.~
1143  IV,  6 |      excessive heat, but they can be softened-though manufactured iron does melt,
1144  II,  9 |         makes the noise in question. Some-Cleidemus is one of them-say that
1145   I,  6 |           the archonship of Euclees, son of Molon, at Athens there
1146  IV,  8 |            thing is white, fragrant, sonant, sweet, hot, cold in virtue
1147   I,  13|              to find bottom there by sounding. At this spot, about three
1148  II,  8 |            the air gives off various sounds when it is struck, so it
1149   I,  7 |              a torch is thrust, or a spark thrown. That is what a shooting-star
1150   I,  4 |      sometimes it seems to throw off sparks as it burns. (This happens
1151  II,  8 |           animal bodies. Tetanus and spasms are motions of wind, and
1152  II,  6 |          remote from one another are specific contraries. Now things that
1153  IV,  12|            is perhaps even harder to specify by physical inquiry than
1154   I,  1 |              element-enumerating and specifying them and showing how they
1155  II,  7 |              the earth is convex and spherical. It is absurd, too, to maintain
1156 III,  1 |               and it consists in the spiral which descends to the earth
1157  IV,  3 |              watery or contains both spirit and water. Ripening being
1158   I,  14|             with the river water and spoil it. So it is clear that
1159   I,  3 |              those regions when they spoke of ether. In the latter
1160 III,  4 |           cause is the same, for the sprinkling hand corresponds to the
1161  II,  9 |             Just as the pips that we squeeze between our fingers are
1162   I,  4 |             is condensed by cold and squeezes out and ejects the hot element;
1163  IV,  9 |          Those bodies are subject to squeezing which have empty pores-empty,
1164  II,  2 |            is not a unity, nor is it stable, but is seen to be in a
1165   I,  13|            spot, about three hundred stadia from land, there comes up
1166  IV,  7 |           solidify, like that of the stag, belong rather to water
1167 III,  4 |           change is to red; the next stage is green, and a further
1168  IV,  4 |            is that which we use as a standard or mean. So we call that
1169 III,  3 |             circle: for if the lines start from the same point and
1170   I,  8 |              begin by discussing the statements of others on the subject.~(
1171  IV,  3 |          used to denote a variety of states. Thus the liquid and solid
1172  IV,  6 |             in the process of baking steams and grows softer, and is
1173  II,  5 |           the formation of winds and stimulates it. When the evaporation
1174 III,  1 |           are the same. As soon as a stimulus to the development of either
1175   I,  4 |         whenever the circular motion stirs this stuff up in any way,
1176  II,  9 |              each to hand out of its stock from time to time. They
1177   I,  14|              are small or porous and stony and clayey, these rivers
1178   I,  14|               and Darius afterwards, stopped making the canal, lest the
1179  II,  4 |           rains, the reason why rain stops wind and wind rises after
1180   I,  13|              stream from an existing store. Secondly, the fact that
1181   I,  13|         mountains called Rhipae. The stories about their size are altogether
1182   I,  7 |           with it there happened the storm at Corinth.~That there are
1183  II,  4 |              opposite side there are storms and rain. So summer and
1184  II,  5 |     considered to be treacherous and stormy, because they place at a
1185  IV,  9 |              and scales that grow on stout limbs.) The fumes of fat
1186   I,  14|            in the course of time the strait must become like a river,
1187  II,  3 |             by its admixture), it is strange that rivers should not be
1188   I,  14|       Libya-the country of Ammon-is, strangely enough, lower and hollower
1189   I,  7 |            said to be fringed, if it stretches out in one direction it
1190  II,  6 |             is the north wind in the strict sense. Thrascias and Meses
1191  IV,  1 |       otherwise unconcocted. But the strictest general opposite of true
1192  IV,  3 |              boiled, and the word is strictly applicable only to things
1193  II,  8 |              shut it in. So in their struggle with one another the wind
1194   I,  13|          from the same mountain; the Strymon, the Nestus, and the Hebrus
1195   I,  4 |             burning as in a field of stubble: if it burns lengthwise
1196   I,  1 |             movements of meteors. It studies also all the affections
1197 III,  4 |             In woven and embroidered stuffs the appearance of colours
1198  IV,  9 |               for the limit to their subdivision is set by the pores), but
1199  II,  3 |          with such regularity as the sublunary world admits of. and it
1200   I,  3 |           into a common and ultimate substrate.~The first difficulty is
1201 III,  5 |            the greater angle (for it subtends the greater angle of the
1202  II,  6 |           When they cease, winds are succeeded by their neighbours in the
1203 III,  3 |          seen as a circle, appearing successively in each of the mirrors as
1204  II,  3 |             that Charybdis had twice sucked in the sea: the first time
1205  II,  3 |            the islands; and when she sucks it in for the last time
1206   I,  14|              facts about the Red Sea suffice to prove it too. One of
1207   I,  14|              we must suppose that it suffices for a long time. We have
1208  II,  2 |              question which has been sufficiently discussed (I mean about
1209   I,  3 |               Shooting-stars further suffix to prove that the celestial
1210   I,  7 |           The observations before us suggest the following account of
1211  II,  3 |           considered on another more suitable occasion.~For the present
1212 III,  6 |           and ochre, and ruddle, and sulphur, and the other things of
1213   I,  14|          this reason Mycenae was the superior). But now the opposite is
1214   I,  5 |            and white are combined by superposition. Thus on a hot day, or through
1215  IV,  1 |            by the moist.~Destruction supervenes when the determined gets
1216  II,  8 |         beyond.~Again, our theory is supported by the facts that the sun
1217  II,  9 |              of the sort. It is like supposing that water, snow, and hail
1218   I,  14|            and size of the earth are surely as nothing in comparison
1219 III,  4 |            reflected from all smooth surfaces, such as are air and water
1220   I,  5 |              and stars. So it is not surprising that this same air when
1221   I,  11|              freeze. For there still survives in it a great deal of the
1222  II,  2 |            course of many others and swallow them up. This is why the
1223   I,  13|            in the higher ground were sweating the water out. Hence, too,
1224  II,  8 |          Here a portion of the earth swelled up and a lump like a mound
1225  II,  8 |            the most violent; for its swiftness gives its impact the greatest
1226   I,  12|              of earth and gold often swim on water). In that case
1227   I,  12|           rest on the iar (the water swimming on the air just as small
1228  II,  1 |            But this is because it is swinging to and fro. In the open
1229  II,  5 |          from the winter tropic. For symmetry would require another wind
1230   I,  2 |           element which makes up the system of the bodies that move
1231  II,  2 |            cup of water over a large table. This is the case with the
1232  II,  3 |           dry it up entirely. Such a tale is appropriate enough to
1233  II,  3 |            end reminds us of Aesop’s tales. His story was that Charybdis
1234  II,  5 |              shape is like that of a tambourine. If you draw lines from
1235  II,  2 |             waters is what is called Tartarus-a mass of water about the
1236   I,  13|              flow the Istrus and the Tartessus. The latter flows outside
1237  II,  2 |              upwards. Water gets its tastes and colours from the kind
1238   I,  13|         cavities in the earth we are taught by the rivers that are swallowed
1239  IV,  12|             and so it is not easy to tell when they are really there
1240   I,  6 |     impossibility.~An objection that tells equally against those who
1241 III,  1 |             the conflagration of the temple at Ephesus which we lately
1242  II,  3 |             The phenomenon is due to temporary excess of rain and not to
1243  II,  9 |         everything hot has a natural tendency upwards. Just as the pips
1244  IV,  9 |          vapour is a moist secretion tending to the nature of air produced
1245  II,  9 |              the daylight is too in, tense and obscures it.~These are
1246  IV,  12|          qualities enumerated above, tension, tractility, comminuibility,
1247   I,  8 |            the rays of the sun would terminate at no great distance from
1248   I,  4 |    evaporation: but we must use this terminology since this element is the
1249   I,  12|            noise close to the earth, terrifying those who heard and saw
1250  II,  8 |           observed in animal bodies. Tetanus and spasms are motions of
1251 III,  1 |          remained intact because its texture was so loose that the exhalation
1252  II,  4 |            its course is always over the-west and the east. Hence clouds
1253   I,  6 |       intervals of time.~A view like theirs was also expressed by Hippocrates
1254  II,  9 |             Some-Cleidemus is one of them-say that lightning is nothing
1255  II,  1 |             old writers who invented theogonies say that the sea has springs,
1256   I,  12|          large raindrops do not fall thickly. Hail is rarer in summer
1257   I,  6 |              fact. For a star in the thigh of the Dog had a tail, though
1258  IV,  2 |         process is the nature of the thing-nature, that is, in the sense of
1259  II,  2 |             of the stars, that these thinkers should consider the sun
1260   I,  13|            at all. This is just like thinking that all rivers are one
1261  II,  3 |              of the sea. Any one who thinks like Democritus that the
1262  II,  8 |             is too weak by reason of thinness to cause an earthquake the
1263  IV,  9 |             are tractile, e.g. hair, thongs, sinew, dough, birdlime,
1264  II,  6 |             for dwellers in the west Thrasciae, Argestae, and Zephyrus (
1265  II,  9 |             call the laughter or the threat of Hephaestus or of Hestia.
1266 III,  2 |            one time. Each of them is three-coloured; the colours are the same
1267  II,  8 |         analogous to the tremors and throbbings caused in us by the force
1268 III,  4 |              in part of the room and throwing a shadow in the rest. Then
1269  II,  8 |             earth like a sort of ebb tide, corresponding to the outward
1270  IV,  12|          less clear than that of the tongue. So, too, with fire; but
1271   I,  14|             Deucalion, for instance, took place chiefly in the Greek
1272  IV,  7 |               hence it floats on the top of water, since air tends
1273   I,  12|            Ethiopia too, and that in torrents and repeatedly on the same
1274  II,  5 |          wind clearly blows from the torrid region. Now the sun is so
1275  II,  3 |              is evidently simply the totality of river water, and the
1276  IV,  10|         Homogeneous bodies differ to touch-by these affections and differences,
1277   I,  8 |            except where a part of it touches the circle of the milky
1278  II,  8 |              buried the neighbouring town of Lipara and reached some
1279  II,  8 |              and reached some of the towns in Italy. The spot where
1280  IV,  12|           enumerated above, tension, tractility, comminuibility, hardness,
1281   I,  14|              can now sail into it to trade is much lower than it was
1282  IV,  9 |         being the means by which the transition to fire is effected), but
1283 III,  1 |    quantities and frequently, and is transitory, and its constitution rare,
1284   I,  13|        mountains proves that a place transmits the water it contains by
1285  II,  5 |            is nothing to prevent our travelling round the earth unless the
1286  II,  5 |           Orion are considered to be treacherous and stormy, because they
1287   I,  3 |             already discussed in our treatment of the upper region, but
1288  II,  8 |         earth to be analogous to the tremors and throbbings caused in
1289   I,  5 |        presents the appearance of a "trench".~In general, white in contrast
1290   I,  13|          make the water ooze out and trickle together in minute quantities
1291   I,  13|             earth the water at first trickles together little by little,
1292   I,  14|              too. One of their kings tried to make a canal to it (for
1293   I,  14|         process because of small and trifling changes, when the bulk and
1294  II,  9 |          than hearing. The rowing of triremes illustrates this: the oars
1295   I,  14|           Greece. In the time of the Trojan wars the Argive land was
1296  II,  1 |           the cause of winds and the turnings back of the sun and the
1297   I,  6 |              one of the stars in the Twins and hiding it, and yet no
1298 III,  6 |            of the earth.~Just as its twofold nature gives rise to various
1299  II,  1 |            Aegean; the Sardinian and Tyrrhenic being the deepest of all. (
1300   I,  3 |           resolved into a common and ultimate substrate.~The first difficulty
1301   I,  3 |             call it "ether".~For the um opinions appear in cycles
1302  II,  3 |         instance of this is found in Umbria. There is a place there
1303  IV,  3 |            by heat but have remained unaffected. Hence, while we speak of "
1304  II,  9 |           these phenomena is equally unattractive: this, too, is a most careless
1305   I,  8 |              The milky way is always unchanged and among the same constellations (
1306  IV,  1 |      imperfectly boiled or otherwise unconcocted. But the strictest general
1307 III,  4 |              gives a reflection even uncondensed when the sight is weak.
1308  IV,  3 |          many other things that have undergone concoction are said to be "
1309  IV,  1 |         these powers into the matter underlying a given thing when they
1310   I,  1 |            the whole of our original undertaking will have been carried out.~
1311 III,  6 |             and yet sight reaches it undiminished because it moves close to
1312 III,  6 |           then are occasioned by the unevenness of the mirror-as regards
1313   I,  13|          Pontus". This is a place of unfathomable depth in the sea: at any
1314  IV,  3 |            cold rather than hot, and unfit for food or drink. Rawness,
1315  II,  5 |         region we dwell in up to the uninhabited parts: in one direction
1316  II,  4 |              evaporation takes place uninterruptedly but differs in degree and
1317  II,  8 |         their force is such that the united efforts of many men do not
1318  IV,  2 |        similar objects have no names universally applicable to them; consequently
1319   I,  13|            further limit of which is unknown to the dwellers in our world.
1320   I,  13|              of the earth, yet it is unreasonable for any one to refuse to
1321 III,  1 |             substances are affected, unresisting ones are not. For instance,
1322  II,  3 |              scientific theory it is unsatisfactory. Even in the case of the
1323   I,  13|              river, and the ordinary unscientific view is better than a scientific
1324  II,  3 |             saltness of the sea seem unsuccessful let us explain it by the
1325  II,  8 |             was the cause; for it is upset in an earthquake, just like
1326  II,  8 |            for effusion is a form of upsetting). No, earth and water are
1327  IV,  3 |             same, the reason for the usage being that the various cases
1328   I,  14|           such destructions the most utter and sudden are due to wars;
1329 III,  4 |             red colour, G for green, V for violet; yellow appears
1330   I,  13|             are no channels from its valleys to the sea. So these places
1331   I,  3 |          from fire and from air, but varying degree of purity and in
1332  II,  3 |               and the rivers are the vehicle in which that earth is carried
1333  IV,  10|               viscera, hair, fibres, veins (these are the elements
1334  II,  8 |            that. Our theory has been verified by actual observation in
1335  II,  5 |           ever visible circle, their vertex is at the centre of the
1336  II,  8 |           few places, where they act vertically, upwards from below, like
1337  II,  8 |              the earth and shakes it violently.~We must suppose the action
1338  II,  8 |            into the air and appeared visibly like a hurricane. This happened
1339  II,  4 |       regions which the sun does not visit: it approaches them and
1340   I,  14|         flooded again.~But the whole vital process of the earth takes
1341  II,  3 |             body stuff of this kind, viz. the sediment of food, is
1342  II,  5 |         breadth. If we compute these voyages and journeys the distance
1343  II,  3 |            left in the earth? Again, waiving the question of quantity,
1344 III,  4 |             him and facing him as he walked. This was because his sight
1345  II,  9 |              there is, is altogether wanton.~The view that the heat
1346  II,  3 |           brackish. The south is the warmest of winds and it blows from
1347  II,  3 |               how can the drying and warming of the earth cause the secretion
1348  II,  3 |             has many flavours and is washed down by the rivers and so
1349  II,  3 |              departing moisture were washing the stuff out of the body),
1350  II,  5 |            at all: it checks them by wasting the evaporation, and prevents
1351  IV,  7 |             same reason it floats in water-all except ebony. This does
1352  II,  8 |             cloud is left, a sort of wave-mark in the air.~An earthquake
1353 III,  4 |             sight is reflected it is weakened and, as it makes dark look
1354  II,  4 |             the earth. Every wind is weakest in the spot from which it
1355  II,  3 |            make salt water heavy (it weighs more than fresh water) and
1356   I,  14|            places that were formerly well-tempered some day grow excessively
1357         | wherein
1358  IV,  4 |           are compounded of them and whichever predominates determines
1359 III,  1 |              in a straight line, and whirls round by its circular motion
1360  IV,  7 |            lapse of time thicken and whiten it. The whitening follows
1361 III,  4 |             contrast, for the red is whitened by its juxtaposition with
1362  IV,  7 |           thicken and whiten it. The whitening follows on the evaporation
1363  IV,  10|           which the moisture has not wholly gone earth still preponderates,
1364         | whom
1365  II,  2 |            when it arrives at a vast wide place it quickly and imperceptibly
1366  II,  8 |             cause of earthquakes but wind-that is, the inrush of the external
1367  II,  8 |        drought-because these are the windiest seasons. Summer with its
1368  II,  4 |           the winter in the north is windless and calm: that is, in the
1369   I,  13|            empty, as if let out of a wineskin, or, as painters represent
1370  IV,  9 |             and leaves and the thick wings of birds and scales that
1371  II,  8 |             you throw up things in a winnowing fan), as we see from Sipylus
1372   I,  10|          brings warm, and the north, wintry weather. For the north wind
1373  II,  1 |          primary part of it. Others, wiser in human knowledge, give
1374   I,  13|              of the air. Hence some, wishing to say a clever thing, assert
1375  II,  8 |           rarefies the air begins to withdraw into the earth. The calm,
1376  IV,  9 |   straightened, like the reed or the withy, some cannot, like pottery
1377 III,  1 |              Ephesus which we lately witnessed. There independent sheets
1378   I,  4 |            here too the flame passes wonderfully quickly and looks like a
1379  IV,  12|             made of stone, just as a wooden saw is no more a saw than
1380 III,  1 |            has been melted while the woodwork remained intact because
1381  IV,  9 |          colour them.~The fumes of a woody body are called smoke. (
1382  II,  1 |             whereas wells need to be worked artificially. All the waters
1383  IV,  12|            the elements, and all the works of nature in turn of the
1384   I,  12|              those that fall far are worn away by the length of their
1385 III,  4 |            following fact further is worth noticing. When there is
1386 III,  4 |           the effect of contrast. In woven and embroidered stuffs the
1387   I,  13|           either of things which the writer has seen himself or of such
1388 III,  4 |          yellow appears at the point Y. Three rainbows or more
1389  IV,  5 |          hard or soft; for it either yields or does not.~It must also
1390 III,  5 |           horizon AG. So part of it, YM, will be invisible when
1391         | your
1392 III,  5 |           sun before. So the segment YX which is above the horizon
1393 III,  5 |          less than a semicircle. For YXM was a semicircle and it
1394 III,  3 |            equal and those at B, GB, ZB, DB equal too. (See diagram.)~
1395 III,  3 |          from the angles; GE from G, ZE from Z, DE from D. Then
1396  II,  6 |         round, but it represents the zone in which we live; for that