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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.27–I.40.1.29
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Γίνονται δὲ ἀπὸ μὲν ταύτης ὁμίχλαι καὶ δρόσοι καὶ πάγων ἰδέαι, νέφη τε καὶ ὄμβροι καὶ χιόνες καὶ χάλαζαι· ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς ξηρᾶς ἄνεμοί τε καὶ πνεύματα διάφορα, βρονταί τε καὶ ἀστραπαὶ καὶ πρηστῆρες καὶ κεραυνοὶ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα, ἃ δὴ τούτοις ἐστὶ συμφυΐα.
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Ἔστι δὲ ὁμίχλη μὲν ἀτμιδώδης ἀναθυμίασις ἄγονος ὕδατος, ἀέρος μὲν παχυτέρα, νέφους δὲ ἀραιοτέρα· γίνεται δὲ ἤτοι ἐξ ἀρχῆς νέφους ἢ ἐξ ὑπολείμματος. Ἀντίπαλος δὲ αὐτῇ λέγεταί τε καὶ ἔστιν αἰθρία, οὐδὲν ἄλλο οὖσα πλὴν ἀὴρ ἀνεφελός τε καὶ ἀνόμιχλος.
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Δρόσος δ᾽ ἐστὶν ὑγρὸν ἐξ αἰθρίας κατὰ σύστασιν λεπτὴν φερόμενον, κρύσταλλος δὲ ἀθρόον ὕδωρ ἐξ αἰθρίας πεπηγός, πάχνη δ᾽ ἐστὶν … ἡμιπαγὴς δρόσος·
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 78327 · What each exhalation produces
From the moist exhalation arise mists, dews, forms of frost, clouds, rains, snows, and hail; from the dry one arise winds and differing blasts, thunder, lightning, fiery storm blasts, thunderbolts, and the other phenomena naturally akin to these.1012
28 · Mist and clear air
Mist is a vaporous exhalation that produces no water, thicker than air but thinner than cloud. It arises either from a cloud’s first formation or from its remnant. What is called clear weather is its opposite, and truly is so: it is nothing other than air free from cloud and mist.1013
29 · Dew, ice, and frost
Dew is moisture descending from a clear sky in a fine condensation; ice is a mass of water frozen under a clear sky; frost is … half-frozen dew.1014
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