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Book I Chapter 31 · I.31.8.4–I.31.8.6
Ancient Greek
p. 7268 Ἀρριανοῦ · 4
Ὅτι καὶ τῶν ὀρῶν ὅσα ὑπὲρ εἴκοσί γε ἀπὸ γῆς σταδίους ἀνέχει ἐς εὐθὺ (ἔστι δὲ καὶ εὐαρίθμητα ταῦτα ἔν γε τοῖς καθ᾽ ἡμᾶς τόποις) οὔτε ὑόμενα ὤφθη ποτὲ οὔτε καταπνεόμενα, οὐδὲ νεφέλη ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ἢ καὶ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἱζάνουσα.
8 Ἀρριανοῦ · 5
ἀλλὰ τῆς Οἴτης γε ἐπὶ τῇ ἀκρωρείᾳ θύεσθαι ὅσα ἔτη λόγος καὶ Ἡρακλεῖ καὶ Φιλοκτήτῃ εἰς μνήμην τοῦ παλαιοῦ παθήματος καὶ τὴν τέφραν ἐπὶ τῇ πυρκαιᾷ ἐν χώρᾳ μένειν.
8 Ἀρριανοῦ · 6
εἶναι γὰρ τὸν ἄνω ὑπὲρ γῆς ἀέρα λεπτὸν τε ἤδη καὶ καθαρὸν καὶ αὐγοειδῆ· καὶ ταῦτα διαφορεῖσθαι τοὺς ἀτμοὺς ὅσοι πορρωτέρω ὑπεραναφέρονται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 31
p. 7278 Arrian: The highest mountains
That mountains rising vertically more than twenty stadia above the earth (and these are few in number, at least in our part of the world) have never been seen receiving rain or being swept by wind, nor has a cloud been seen above them or settling on them.928
8 Arrian: The ashes on Oeta
Indeed, there is a report that sacrifices are offered each year on the summit of Oeta to both Heracles and Philoctetes, in memory of the suffering of old, and that the ash on the pyre remains in its place.929
8 Arrian: The air above
For the air high above the earth is already fine, clear, and luminous; and in this way the vapors that are carried farther upward are dispersed.930
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