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Book I Chapter 31 · I.31.6.1–I.31.6.3
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p. 7146 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
⟨Ἀριστοτέλους.⟩ Ἐκ δὲ τῆς ὑγρᾶς καὶ ἀτμώδους ⟨ἀναθυμιάσεως⟩ ὑετούς τε καὶ δρόσους καὶ πάχνας, ὁμίχλας τε καὶ νέφη καὶ χιόνας καὶ χαλάζας.
6 ⟨Ἀριστοτέλους⟩ · 2
ὑετοὺς μὲν γίνεσθαι τῆς ἀναδιδομένης ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἀτμίδος ⟨ἐν⟩ τοῖς ἄνω τόποις συνισταμένης κατὰ πύκνωσιν καὶ τρεπομένης εἰς ὕδωρ, εἶτα φερομένης ἀθρόως ἐπὶ γῆν διὰ τὴν ἀπόλειψιν τοῦ ἀναγαγόντος αὐτὴν θερμοῦ· σκεδασθείσης δ᾽ εἰς μικρὰ μόρια καλεῖσθαι ψεκάδας·
6 ⟨Ἀριστοτέλους⟩ · 3
πρὸ τοῦ δὲ μετεωρισθῆναι σφόδρα κατενεχθείσης διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀναγαγόντος αὐτὴν πυρὸς ὀλιγότητα προσονομάζεσθαι δρόσον καὶ πάχνην· πάχνην μέν, ὅταν παγῇ πρὶν εἰς ὕδωρ συγκριθῆναι (γίνεσθαι δὲ χειμῶνος καὶ ἐν τόποις μᾶλλον χειμερινοῖς)· δρόσον δ᾽, ὅταν τὸ συνιστάμενον ὑγρὸν νύκτωρ ψυχθὲν ἅμα τοῖς ὄρθροις ἐπὶ γῆν ἐπιφέρεται·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 31
p. 7156 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: The moist exhalation
⟨Aristotle’s view.⟩ From the moist and vaporous ⟨exhalation⟩ come rain, dew, frost, mist, clouds, snow, and hail.916
6 ⟨Aristotle⟩: Rain and drizzle
Rain forms when the vapor rising from the earth gathers through condensation ⟨in⟩ the upper regions and turns into water. It then falls in a mass to earth because the heat that raised it has left it. When it is scattered into small portions, it is called drizzle.917
6 ⟨Aristotle⟩: Dew and frost
When it descends before rising very high, because there is little of the fire that raised it, it receives the names dew and frost. It is frost when it freezes before gathering into water (this occurs in winter and in places with a more wintry climate); it is dew when the moisture that is forming cools during the night and settles on the earth at dawn.918
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