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Book I Chapter 36 · I.36.heading–I.36.1
Ancient Greek
p. 736Κεφάλαιον ΛϚʹ
Περὶ σεισμῶν γῆς.
1 · ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Πλάτων πάσης κινήσεως ἓξ εἶναι περιστάσεις, ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ἐπὶ δεξιὰ καὶ θάτερα, πρόσθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν. Κατ᾽ οὐδεμίαν ⟨δὲ⟩ τούτων ἐνδέχεσθαι τὴν γῆν κινεῖσθαι, ἐν τῷ πανταχόθεν κατωτάτῳ κειμένην μένειν ἀκίνητον, ἅτε δὴ μηδὲν ἔχουσαν ἐξαίρετον ἐς τὸ ῥέψαι μᾶλλον· τόπους δὲ αὐτῆς κατὰ ἀραιότητα σαλεύεσθαι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 36
p. 737Chapter 36: On earthquakes
On earthquakes.944
1 · ⟨Aëtius⟩: Plato
Plato says that every movement has six possible directions: up and down, to the right and to the opposite side, forward and backward.945 ⟨But⟩ the earth cannot move in any of these directions. Lying at the point that is lowest from every side, it remains motionless, since it has no special reason to incline in one direction rather than another. Particular regions of it, however, are shaken because of their porosity.946
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