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Book I Chapter 31 · I.31.8.1–I.31.8.3
Ancient Greek
p. 7248 Ἀρριανοῦ · 1
Ἀρριανός φησι τὴν ὁμίχλην, ⟨ὅτι⟩ ἡ μὲν πρὸ νέφους ξυνίσταται πρὶν ἐξαναστῆναι, ἐπιπολὺ δὲ ἀπὸ νέφους ἐκχυθέντος καὶ σκεδασθέντος· γίγνεται δὲ ταῦτα, εἰ μὴ κρατήσειεν αὐτῶν ὁ ἥλιος καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἄστρα ὅσα ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ οὐρανός.
8 Ἀρριανοῦ · 2
Ἀπὸ δὲ νεφελῶν, ὅσαι μὲν μὴ ἄγαν πιληθεῖσαι ξυνέστησαν, ψεκάδες καταφέρονται ἐπὶ γῆν καὶ εἰς ταύτας διαλύονται ὁμίχλαι τε καὶ νεφελῶν ὅσαι μανώτεραι· ὅσαι δὲ ἐπὶ μέγα ξυστᾶσαι εἰς ὕδωρ μετέβαλον, ὑετοὺς ἐκ νεφῶν γεννῶσι.
8 Ἀρριανοῦ · 3
Καὶ ὁμίχλαι μὲν τὸ πολὺ τῇ γῇ ἐφιζάνουσιν, ἅτε δὴ κεχυμένης τε ἔτι καὶ ἀξυστάτου τῆς ἀτμίδος· αἱ νεφέλαι δὲ αἴρονται εἰς τὸ ἄνω, οὐ μὴν ὑπὲρ εἴκοσίν γε ἀπὸ γῆς σταδίους οὐδὲ αὗται ἀναφέρονται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 31
p. 7258 Arrian: Two origins of mist
Arrian says of mist ⟨that⟩ some forms before cloud, before rising up, but much of it comes from cloud that has spread out and dispersed. These things occur if the sun, the other stars in the sky, and the sky itself do not prevail over them.926
8 Arrian: Drizzle and rain
From clouds that have formed without being too closely compressed, fine drops descend to earth; both mists and the less dense clouds dissolve into these. But clouds that have gathered in a great mass and changed into water produce rains from clouds.
8 Arrian: How high clouds rise
Mists generally settle upon the earth, since their vapor is still dispersed and has not gathered together. Clouds rise upward, though even these are not carried more than twenty stadia above the earth.927
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