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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.53–I.40.1.54
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Γίγνονται δὲ καὶ μυκητίαι σεισμοί, σείοντες τὴν γῆν μετὰ βρόμου. Πολλάκις δὲ καὶ χωρὶς σεισμοῦ γίνεται μύκημα γῆς, ὅταν τὸ πνεῦμα σείειν μὲν μὴ αὔταρκες ᾖ, εἰλούμενον δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ κόπτηται μετὰ ῥοθίου βίας. Συσσωματοποιεῖται δὲ τὰ σείοντα πνεύματα καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ ὑγρῶν κεκραμένων.
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Τὰ δὲ ἀνάλογον συμπίπτει τούτοις καὶ ἐν θαλάττῃ. Χάσματα ⟨γὰρ⟩ γίγνονται θαλάττης καὶ ἀναχωρήματα πολλάκις καὶ κυμάτων ἐπιδρομαί, ποτὲ μὲν ἀντανακοπὴν ἔχουσαι, ποτὲ δὲ πρόωσιν μόνον· ὥσπερ ἱστορεῖται περὶ Ἑλίκην τε καὶ Βοῦραν. Πολλάκις δὲ καὶ ἀναφυσήματα γίγνεται πυρὸς ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ καὶ πηγῶν ἀναβλύσεις καὶ ποταμῶν ἐκβολαὶ καὶ δένδρων ἐκφύσεις, ῥοαί τε καὶ δῖναι ⟨ταῖς⟩ τῶν πνευμάτων ἀνάλογον, αἱ μὲν ἐν μέσοις πελάγεσιν, αἱ δὲ κατὰ τοὺς εὐρίπους τε καὶ πορθμούς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 80153 · Underground rumbling
There are also bellowing earthquakes, which shake the earth with a roar. Often the earth bellows without an earthquake, when the wind is insufficient to shake it but, confined within it, is battered with a violent rushing noise. The winds that cause the shaking are also formed into compact masses by the mingled liquids within the earth.1037
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Analogous disturbances occur in the sea as well. ⟨For⟩ the sea often opens into gaps or withdraws, and waves rush in, sometimes with a returning recoil and sometimes only with a forward thrust, as is reported of Helice and Bura. Often there are also eruptions of fire in the sea, upwellings of springs, outlets of rivers, growths of trees, and currents and eddies analogous to ⟨those⟩ of winds, some in the open seas and others in narrow channels and straits.1038
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