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Book I Chapter 31 · I.31.9.1–I.31.9.2
Ancient Greek
p. 7309 Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου · 1
Τὸ πυρὶ μεμιγμένον ὕδωρ, ὅσον λεπτόν, ὑγρόν τε διὰ τὴν κίνησιν καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν ἣν κυλινδούμενον ἐπὶ γῆς ὑγρὸν λέγεται, μαλακόν τε αὐτῷ τὰς βάσεις ἧττον ἑδραίας οὔσας ἢ τὰς γῆς ὑπείκειν·
9 Πλάτωνος ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου · 2
τοῦτο ὅταν πυρὸς ἀποχωρισθὲν ἀέρος τε μονωθῇ, γέγονε μὲν ὁμαλώτερον, ξυνέωσται δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐξιόντων εἰς αὑτό, παγέν τε οὕτως τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ γῆς μάλιστα παθὸν τοιαῦτα χάλαζα, τὸ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆς κρύσταλλος· τὸ δὲ ἧττον ἡμιπαγές τε ὂν ἔτι, τὸ μὲν ὑπὲρ γῆς αὖ χιών, τὸ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆς ξυμπαγὲν ἐκ δρόσου γενόμενον πάχνη λέγεται.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 31
p. 7319 Plato, from the Timaeus: Fluid and soft
Of water mixed with fire, whatever is fine is called fluid because of its motion and the course it takes as it rolls over the earth; and it is called soft because its bases, being less stable than those of earth, give way.934
9 Plato: Hail, ice, snow, and frost
When this water is separated from fire and isolated from air, it becomes more uniform and is pressed in upon itself by the constituents that leave it. When it freezes in this way, what undergoes these changes most fully above the earth is hail; on the earth it is ice. What undergoes them less fully and is still half-frozen is called snow when above the earth, and frost when it forms from dew and congeals on the earth.935
Socrates
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