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Book I Chapter 36 · I.36.2.7–I.36.2.9
Ancient Greek
p. 742Συνέχεια
Ὡς γὰρ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν πολλάκις τὸ διαπνεόμενον ἔξω πνεῦμα παλινδρομῆσαν εἴσω παλμὸν παρέχει καὶ σφυγμὸν ἐν τοῖς σώμασιν, οὕτω τὸ περιληφθὲν ἐν τῇ γῇ κατὰ τὴν κίνησιν κλονούμενον περὶ τοὺς πόρους καὶ διεγκοπτόμενον σπασμοὺς καὶ σεισμοὺς ἀποτελεῖν.
Συνέχεια
Συμβαίνειν δὲ καὶ τὰ μυκήματα ποτὲ μὲν μετὰ σεισμῶν, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ χωρίς, τοῦ πνεύματος ἠχοῦντος, ὥστ᾽ ἐξακούεσθαι ψόφον τινὰ καὶ βόμβον ἐπιμήκιστον, ὁπότε διὰ τῶν σηράγγων διαυλοδρομεῖ παρατριβόμενον μηδ᾽ ἐξιόν.
Συνέχεια
Τά τε χάσματα μετὰ σεισμῶν. ἤδη γοῦν τινας σεισμοὺς μὴ πρότερον λῆξαι, πρὶν ἢ διαρραγῆναι τοὺς τόπους, ἐν οἷς ἐγένοντο, βιασαμένου τοῦ περιληφθέντος πνεύματος περὶ τὴν ἔξοδον ὥσπερ ἐκνεφίου τινὸς ἀνέμου, καθάπερ καὶ τὸν περὶ τὴν Ποντικὴν Ἡράκλειαν καὶ τὸν ἔτι πρότερον γενόμενον περὶ τὴν ἱερὰν καλουμένην Αἰόλου νῆσον·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 36
p. 743A comparison with the body
For just as the breath that we breathe outward often turns back inward and causes palpitation and throbbing in our bodies, so the air enclosed in the earth, jostled about its passages and interrupted in its movement, produces convulsions and earthquakes.954
Subterranean rumbling
Rumblings sometimes accompany earthquakes and sometimes occur without them. The air resounds, so that a noise and a very prolonged booming can be heard, whenever it runs back and forth through the underground tunnels, rubbing against them without escaping.955
Fissures and escaping air
Fissures, too, accompany earthquakes. Indeed, some earthquakes have not ceased until the regions where they occurred split open, as the enclosed air forced its way out like a squall. Such were the earthquake around Heracleia on the Pontus and the still earlier one around the island of Aeolus called Sacred.956
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