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Book I Chapter 27 · I.27.heading–I.27.2.2
Ancient Greek
p. 642Κεφάλαιον ΚΖʹ
Περὶ γάλακτος.
1 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Κύκλος ἐστὶ νεφελοειδής, ἐν μὲν τῷ ἀέρι διὰ παντὸς φαινόμενος, διὰ δὲ τὴν λευκόχροιαν ὀνομαζόμενος γαλαξίας.
2 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Τῶν Πυθαγορείων οἱ μὲν ἔφασαν ἀστέρος εἶναι διάκαυσιν, ἐκπεσόντος μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς ἰδίας ἕδρας, δι᾽ οὗ δὲ περιέδραμε χωρίον κυκλοτερῶς αὐτὸ περιφλέξαντος ἐπὶ τοῦ κατὰ Φαέθοντα ἐμπρησμοῦ· οἱ δὲ τὸν ἡλιακὸν ταύτῃ φασὶ κατ᾽ ἀρχὰς γεγονέναι δρόμον.
2 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Τινὲς δὲ κατοπτρικὴν εἶναι φαντασίαν τοῦ ἡλίου τὰς αὐγὰς πρὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνακλῶντος, ὅπερ κἀπὶ τῆς ἴριδος ἐπὶ τῶν νεφῶν συμβαίνει.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 27
p. 643Chapter 27: The Milky Way
On the Milky Way.829
1 ⟨Aëtius⟩: The milky circle
It is a cloud-like circle, continually visible in the air and called the Milky Way because of its white color.
2 ⟨Aëtius⟩: A fiery track
Some Pythagoreans said that it is the scorching caused by a star which fell from its own station and burned in a circle the region through which it ran, at the time of the conflagration associated with Phaethon. Others say that the sun originally followed this course.830
2 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Reflection
Others held that it is a mirror-like appearance produced by the sun reflecting its rays toward the heavens, just as happens with the rainbow on the clouds.831
Socrates
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