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Book I Chapter 36 · I.36.2.13
Ancient Greek
p. 746Συνέχεια
πρός τε τούτοις τὸ πρὸ τῶν ὀρθρίων σεισμῶν νηνεμίαν γίνεσθαι καὶ ψῦχος· τὴν μὲν γὰρ ξυμβαίνειν διὰ τὴν εἴσω τῶν ἀνέμων μετάρροιαν, τὸ δὲ διὰ τὴν τῆς θερμῆς ἀναθυμιάσεως ἀπουσίαν.
Καὶ περὶ μὲν σεισμῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν περὶ τὴν γῆν παθημάτων ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 36
p. 747Calm and cold before dawn
Further evidence is the calm and cold that precede early-morning earthquakes: the calm occurs because the winds flow back inward, and the cold because the warm exhalation is absent.961
So much for earthquakes and the other disturbances affecting the earth.
Socrates
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