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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.38–I.40.1.40
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Τῶν δὲ ἀνέμων οἱ μέν εἰσιν εὐθύπνοοι, ὁπόσοι διεκθέουσι πρόσω κατ᾽ εὐθεῖαν· οἱ δέ εἰσιν ἀνακαμψίπνοοι, καθάπερ ὁ Καικίας λεγόμενος. Καὶ οἱ μὲν χειμῶνος, καθάπερ οἱ νότοι, δυναστεύοντες, οἱ δὲ θέρους, ὡς οἱ ἐτησίαι λεγόμενοι, μῖξιν ἔχοντες τῶν τε ἀπὸ τῆς ἄρκτου φερομένων καὶ ζεφύρων. οἱ δὲ Ὀρνιθίαι καλούμενοι, ἐαρινοὶ πνέοντες ἄνεμοι, βόρειοί εἰσι τῷ γένει.
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Τῶν γε μὴν βιαίων πνευμάτων καταιγίς μέν ἐστι πνεῦμα … βίᾳ καὶ ἄφνω προσαλλόμενον· λαῖλαψ δὲ καὶ στρόβιλος πνεῦμα εἰλούμενον ἄνω καὶ κάτω· ἀναφύσημα δὲ πνεῦμα γῆς ἄνω φερόμενον κατὰ τὴν ἐκ βυθοῦ τινος ἢ ῥήγματος ἀνάδοσιν· ὅταν δὲ πολὺ φέρηται εἰλούμενον, πρηστὴρ χθόνιός ἐστιν.
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Εἰληθὲν δὲ πνεῦμα ἐν νέφει παχεῖ τε ⟨καὶ⟩ νοτίῳ καὶ ἐξωσθὲν δι᾽ αὐτοῦ βιαίως ⟨ῥηγνύον⟩ τὸ πίλημα τοῦ νέφους βρόμον καὶ πάταγον μέγαν ἀπειργάσατο, βροντὴν λεγόμενον, ὥσπερ ἐν ὕδατι πνεῦμα σφοδρῶς ἐλαυνόμενον. Κατὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ νέφους ἔκρηξιν πυρωθὲν τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ λάμψαν ἀστραπὴ λέγεται·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 79138 · Wind courses and seasons
Some winds blow straight, running forward in a straight course; others bend back in their blowing, such as the one called Caecias. Some prevail in winter, like the south winds; others in summer, like the so-called Etesians, which combine winds from the north with west winds. The winds called Ornithian blow in spring and belong to the northern class.1022
39 · Violent blasts
Among violent blasts, a squall is a wind … that strikes forcibly and suddenly. A tempest or whirlwind is wind twisting up and down. An upward blast is wind from the earth carried aloft as it rises from some depth or fissure; when a great quantity is borne along in a whirl, it is a terrestrial storm blast.1023
40 · Thunder and lightning
Wind trapped in a thick ⟨and⟩ moist cloud and forced violently through it, ⟨rupturing⟩ the cloud’s compressed mass, produces a great roar and crash called thunder, like air driven violently through water. When the cloud bursts, the wind that has caught fire and flashed is called lightning;1024
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