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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.42.5–I.8.42c.1
Ancient Greek
p. 25442 Συνέχεια· περὶ ὡρῶν
Ἔαρ δὲ ἔτους ὥραν κεκραμένην ἐκ χειμῶνος ἀπολήγοντος καὶ θέρους ἀρχομένου· ἢ τὴν μετὰ χειμῶνα ὥραν πρὸ θέρους. Θέρος δὲ ὥραν ἔτους τὴν μάλισθ’ ὑφ’ ἡλίου διακεκαυμένην. Μετόπωρον δὲ ὥραν ἔτους τὴν μετὰ θέρος μέν, πρὸ χειμῶνος δέ, κεκραμένην. Χειμῶνα δὲ ὥραν ἔτους τὴν μάλιστα κατεψυγμένην ἢ τὸν περὶ γῆν ἀέρα κατεψυγμένον. Γίνεσθαι δὲ ἰσημερίας δύο καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ τροπὰς δύο· ἰσημερίας μέν, ὅταν ἡ νὺξ καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα ἴσαι ὦσι· τούτων δὲ τὴν μὲν ἔαρι γίγνεσθαι, τὴν δὲ μετοπώρῳ· τῶν δὲ τροπῶν τὰς μὲν θέρους, τὰς δὲ χειμῶνος.
42b ⟨Ἀετίου, Περὶ ἀρεσκόντων⟩
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς καὶ οἱ Στωικοὶ χειμῶνα μὲν γίγνεσθαι τοῦ ἀέρος ἐπικρατοῦντος τῇ πυκνώσει εἰς τὸ ἀνωτέρω βιαζομένου· θερείαν δὲ τοῦ πυρός, ὅταν εἰς τὸ κατωτέρω βιάζηται.
42c ⟨Ἀετίου, Περὶ ἀρεσκόντων⟩
Ἐνιαυτός ἐστι Κρόνου μὲν ἐνιαυτῶν περίοδος τριάκοντα, Διὸς δώδεκα, Ἄρεος δυοῖν, Ἡλίου δώδεκα μῆνες· οἱ δ’ αὐτοὶ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Ἀφροδίτης, ἰσόδρομοι γάρ· Σελήνης ἡμέραι τριάκοντα. Οὗτος γὰρ ὁ τέλειος μὴν ἀπὸ φάσεως εἰς σύνοδον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 25542 Continued: the seasons
Spring is a season of the year blended from winter ending and summer beginning; or the season after winter and before summer. Summer is the season most thoroughly heated by the sun. Autumn is the blended season after summer and before winter. Winter is the season most thoroughly chilled, or the chilled air around the earth. Each year has two equinoxes and two solstices: equinoxes occur when night and day are equal, one in spring and the other in autumn; the solstices occur in summer and winter.287
42b ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩
Empedocles and the Stoics say that winter occurs when air predominates, being forced upward through condensation; summer occurs when fire predominates, as it is forced downward.288
42c ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: planetary years
A year of Saturn is a circuit of thirty years; of Jupiter, twelve; of Mars, two; of the sun, twelve months. Mercury and Venus have the same period, for they travel at an equal rate. The moon’s period is thirty days, for this is the complete month from appearance to conjunction.289
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