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Book I Chapter 36 · I.36.2.4–I.36.2.6
Ancient Greek
p. 740Συνέχεια
καὶ ἔαρος καὶ μετοπώρου μᾶλλον (ἀνωμάλους γὰρ ταύτας εἶναι τὰς ὥρας· τὸ γὰρ θέρος καὶ τὸν χειμῶνα, τὸ μὲν διὰ τὸν πάγον, τὸ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἀλέαν ἀκίνητον ποιεῖν τὸν ἀέρα διὰ τὸ τὸ μὲν ἄγαν εἶναι ξηρόν, τὸν δὲ ἄγαν ψυχρόν)· καὶ ἐν τοῖς αὐχμοῖς, ὅτε μάλιστα πνευματώδης ὁ ἀήρ· τοῦτο γὰρ εἶναι τὸν αὐχμόν, ξηρᾶς πλῆθος ἀναθυμιάσεως.
Συνέχεια
Ἀπελαυνομένης οὖν τῆς ἀτμίδος εἰς τὴν γῆν καὶ καθειργνυμένης σφυγμὸν γίγνεσθαι περὶ αὐτὴν καὶ τρόμον, καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἐπομβρίαις ἐπιφραττομένης ὑπὸ τῶν ὑγρῶν καὶ τοῦ ψυχροῦ τῆς γῆς καὶ τῆς ἐντὸς ἀναθυμιάσεως αὐξομένης ὑπὸ τῶν ὑετῶν καὶ πυκνουμένης, ὥστε κατὰ τὴν πρόσπτωσιν ἰσχυρῶς κινεῖν καὶ σείειν,
Συνέχεια
καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὑπάντρους καὶ σομφοὺς ἔχουσι τοὺς κάτω τόπους ἢ καὶ παρακειμένην ῥοώδη θάλατταν διὰ τὸ θύραθεν πλεῖον ὑποδέχεσθαι πνεῦμα καὶ διὰ τὸ τὴν θάλατταν προσπίπτουσαν ἀπωθεῖν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὸ πεφυκὸς ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς ἀποπνεῖν πνεῦμα καὶ σκεδάννυσθαι· περὶ γοῦν τὴν Πελοπόννησον καὶ τὴν Ἀχαιΐαν καὶ τῆς Εὐβοίας τὰς κοιλάδας πολλοὺς καὶ μεγάλους γίνεσθαι σεισμούς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 36
p. 741Seasons and drought
They are also more frequent in spring and autumn (for these seasons are changeable; summer and winter make the air motionless, the one through frost and the other through heat, because summer is excessively dry and winter excessively cold).951 They occur also during droughts, when the air is most full of wind; for drought is precisely a mass of dry exhalation.
Imprisoned vapor and heavy rain
Thus, when vapor is driven into the earth and imprisoned, a throbbing and trembling arise in it. Earthquakes occur also during heavy rains, when moisture and cold seal the earth, and the exhalation inside is increased and compressed by the rains, so that its impact moves and shakes the earth violently.952
Cavities and neighboring seas
They occur also in places whose underground regions are cavernous and spongy, or which have a sea with strong currents beside them. Such places admit more air from outside; moreover, the sea, as it strikes against them, drives back into the earth the air that would naturally breathe out from it and disperse. Thus there are many great earthquakes around the Peloponnese and Achaia, and in the valleys of Euboea.953
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