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Book I Chapter 36 · I.36.2.1–I.36.2.3
Ancient Greek
p. 7382 · ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου ἐπιτομῆς⟩
Ἀριστοτέλους. Ἀριστοτέλης φησὶ σεισμοὺς γίνεσθαι καὶ μυκήματα καὶ χάσματα τῆς ξηρᾶς ἀναθυμιάσεως εἰς τὰς ἀραιότητας κατὰ τῆς γῆς ῥυείσης καὶ κατὰ τὰς ἀθρόας ἐμπτώσεις τρόμους καὶ βρασμοὺς περὶ αὐτὴν ἀπεργαζομένης. Ὡς γὰρ ὁρμήσασαν ἔξω τὴν ἀναθυμίασιν ἄνεμον ποιεῖν σφοδρόν, οὕτως εἴσω καθειρχθεῖσαν τῇ ῥύμῃ τῆς φορᾶς διακραδαίνειν τοὺς τόπους, ἐν οἷς ἂν ἀποληφθῇ.
Συνέχεια
Συνέχεσθαι ⟨δὲ⟩ τὴν δύναμιν ταύτην ἐν τῇ γῇ διά τε πύκνωσιν τῆς ἐπιφανείας καὶ διὰ κατάψυξιν καὶ διὰ ξηρασίαν. Ὅθεν καὶ νηνεμίας οὔσης ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ γίνεσθαι τοὺς σεισμοὺς τῆς τῶν ἀνέμων ὁρμῆς εἴσω τραπείσης·
Συνέχεια
καὶ νυκτὸς μᾶλλον διὰ τὴν ψύξιν καὶ περὶ τὸν ὄρθρον· τοὺς γὰρ ἀνέμους τότε τῆς πνοῆς ἄρχεσθαι καὶ πρὸς τὴν γῆν ἀποστρέφειν ⟨τὸ⟩ κατὰ τὴν ἀναθυμίασιν ἀνιὸν πνεῦμα· καὶ τῆς ἡμέρας ἔστιν ὅτε περὶ μεσημβρίαν· τὸν γὰρ ἥλιον τῆς ἀναθυμιάσεως ἐπικρατοῦντα κατακλείειν αὐτὴν εἰς τὴν γῆν·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 36
p. 7392 · ⟨From the epitome of Arius Didymus⟩
Aristotle’s account.947 Aristotle says that earthquakes, rumblings, and fissures arise when dry exhalation flows into porous spaces beneath the earth and, rushing in en masse, produces trembling and upheaving in it. For just as the exhalation creates a violent wind when it rushes outward, so, when imprisoned inside, the force of its movement shakes the regions in which it is trapped.948
Air held beneath the surface
⟨And⟩ this force is held within the earth by the compactness of its surface, by cooling, and by dryness. Hence earthquakes generally occur when the air is still, because the winds’ impetus has turned inward.949
Night, dawn, and midday
They occur more often at night, because of the cold, and around dawn: the winds then begin to blow and turn back toward the earth ⟨the⟩ current of air rising with the exhalation. In daytime they sometimes occur around noon, since the sun overpowers the exhalation and confines it within the earth.950
Socrates
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