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Book I Chapter 29 · I.29.2.7–I.29.2.9
Ancient Greek
p. 6822 Ἀρριανοῦ · 7
Οὕτω τοι καὶ πρὸς ἄλλοτε ἀλλοῖαι θύελλαι ἀναστρέφονταί τε καὶ ἀνειλούμεναι αὖθις ἄνω ἀναφέρονται, ἐπειδὰν δὴ ἐγχρίμψας τόπος τις γῆς ἀνακόψῃ τῆς πνοῆς τὴν ἐπ᾽ εὐθὺ ὁρμήν.
2 Ἀρριανοῦ · 8
Καὶ δῖναι ἐν τοῖς ποταμοῖς ὕδατος ταὐτὸ τοῦτό εἰσι· φερόμενον γὰρ εὐθείᾳ τὸ ὕδωρ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν δινηθείη· ἀντιπεσόντος δὲ ἄλλοτε ἄλλου πρὸς τὴν φορὰν ἀναστρέφει ἡ ῥοή, ἀναστραφεῖσα δὲ ἐς κύκλον ἐπικάμπτει ὑπὸ τῇ ῥύμῃ, ὅτι μὴ οἵα τε ἐπ᾽ εὐθὺ ἐς τὸ ἔμπαλιν ἐκφέρεσθαι.
2 Ἀρριανοῦ · 9
Οἱ δὲ τυφῶνες καὶ τῆς νεφέλης τὸ πολὺ ἐς τὸ κάτω σὺν ἕλικι ἐπάγουσιν ἅμα σφίσι· καὶ προσπεσόντες τῇ γῇ ἀναρπάζουσιν ὅτῳ ἂν ἐντύχωσιν, ἀντικοπτομένης τῆς ῥύμης, ὡς ξὺν τῇ αὐτῇ ἕλικι ἀναστρέφεσθαι· ὥστε καὶ ναῦς ἤδη ἅμα τῷ φόρτῳ ἐμπεσόντες ἐξῆραν ἐπὶ μέγα ἔξω τῆς θαλάσσης.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 29
p. 6832 Arrian: Tempests checked by the ground
Thus too, at different times, tempests of different kinds turn back and, coiling upon themselves, are carried upward again when some part of the ground in their path checks the wind’s straight onward rush.877
2 Arrian: The analogy of river eddies
Eddies of water in rivers are the very same thing. Water moving in a straight course would never whirl; but when one thing or another obstructs its movement, the stream turns back. Once turned back, it bends into a circle under its own momentum, since it cannot move straight in the opposite direction.878
2 Arrian: The lifting force of whirlwinds
Whirlwinds also bring much of the cloud down with them in a spiral. When they strike the ground, they snatch up whatever they encounter: their momentum is checked, so that they turn back in the same spiral. They have even struck ships and lifted them, cargo and all, high out of the sea.
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