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Book I Chapter 29 · I.29.1.14–I.29.1.15
Ancient Greek
p. 6721 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 14
Στράτων θερμοῦ ψυχρῷ παρείξαντος, ὅταν ἐκβιασθὲν τύχῃ, τὰ τοιαῦτα γίνεσθαι, βροντὴν μὲν ἀπορρήξει, φάει δ᾽ ἀστραπήν, τάχει δὲ κεραυνόν, πρηστῆρας δὲ καὶ τυφῶνας τῷ πλεονασμῷ τῷ τῆς ὕλης, ἣν ἑκάτερος αὐτῶν ἐφέλκεται, θερμοτέραν μὲν ὁ πρηστήρ, ταχυτέραν δὲ ὁ τυφών.
1 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 15
Οἱ Στωικοὶ βροντὴν μὲν προσκρουσμὸν νεφῶν, ἀστραπὴν δὲ ἔξαψιν ἐκ παρατρίψεως, κεραυνὸν δὲ σφοδροτέραν ἔκλαμψιν, πρηστῆρα δὲ νωθεστέραν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 29
p. 6731 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Strato
Strato held that these phenomena occur when the hot yields to the cold and is forced out: thunder through the breaking away, lightning through the light, and a thunderbolt through the speed. Fiery whirlwinds and whirlwinds arise through an excess of the material that each draws along with it: hotter material in a fiery whirlwind, faster material in a whirlwind.867
1 ⟨Aëtius⟩: The Stoics
The Stoics held that thunder is a collision of clouds, lightning an ignition caused by friction, a thunderbolt a more violent flash, and a fiery whirlwind a more sluggish one.
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