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Book I Chapter 31 · I.31.6.4–I.31.6.6
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p. 7166 ⟨Ἀριστοτέλους⟩ · 4
διὸ καὶ πλείστην πίπτειν δρόσον καὶ πάχνην περὶ τὰ ἕλη καὶ τὰς λίμνας καὶ τοὺς ποταμοὺς καὶ μάλιστα περὶ τοὺς ἐναύλους καὶ κοίλους τῶν τόπων· ἀνάγεσθαί τε γὰρ πλεῖστον ὑγρὸν ἀπὸ τῶν τοιούτων χωρίων καὶ καταψύχεσθαι μᾶλλον.
6 ⟨Ἀριστοτέλους⟩ · 5
Τὴν δ᾽ ἀθρόαν ἀνάδοσιν λέγεσθαι τῆς ἀτμίδος ἐπὶ μικρὸν μὲν παχυνθεῖσαν ὁμίχλην, οἷον ἀραιὰν καὶ ἄγονον ὕδατος νεφέλην, ὡς ἂν προσυνισταμένην ταύτης καὶ προδιαλυομένην καὶ σημεῖον οὖσαν εὐδίας· τὴν δὲ μετεωρισθεῖσαν ἐπὶ πλεῖον καὶ συγκριθεῖσαν νεφέλην.
6 ⟨Ἀριστοτέλους⟩ · 6
πάντα δὲ περὶ γῆν ταῦτα γίνεσθαι διὰ τὸ μὴ πόρρω τὴν ἀτμίδα μετεωρίζεσθαι κατισχύειν. ἐν γοῦν τοῖς ὑψηλοτάτοις ὄρεσιν οὐδὲν γίνεσθαι τούτων. αἴτιον ⟨δ᾽⟩ ὅτι μάλιστα ἐκ τῶν κοίλων ἀνάγεται καὶ ἐφύδρων ἡ ἀτμὶς τόπων· ὥστε καθάπερ φορτίον πλεῖον φέρουσαν ἢ καθ᾽ ἑαυτὴν τὴν ἀνάγουσαν θερμότητα μὴ δύνασθαι μετεωρίζειν ἐπὶ πολὺν ἄγαν τόπον, ἀλλ᾽ ἐγγὺς οὖσαν ἔτι τῆς γῆς μεθιέναι πάλιν ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 31
p. 7176 ⟨Aristotle⟩: Where dew and frost gather
Hence dew and frost fall most abundantly around marshes, lakes, and rivers, and especially in places with channels and hollows. For the greatest amount of moisture rises from such places, and it cools more.
6 ⟨Aristotle⟩: Mist and cloud
A mass of rising vapor, when only slightly thickened, is called mist: a kind of thin cloud that bears no water, forming earlier than cloud and dispersing earlier, and serving as a sign of fair weather. When it rises farther and gathers together, it is called cloud.919
6 ⟨Aristotle⟩: The burden carried by heat
All these occur near the earth because the vapor cannot rise very far. On the highest mountains, at any rate, none of them occurs. ⟨And⟩ the reason is that vapor rises chiefly from hollow, water-rich places: the heat that raises it is like something carrying a burden beyond its strength. It cannot lift it to a very great height, but, while it is still near the earth, lets it fall back upon it.920
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