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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.33–I.40.1.35
Ancient Greek
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Ἐκ δὲ τῆς ξηρᾶς ὑπὸ ψύχους μὲν ὠσθείσης ὥστε ῥεῖν ἄνεμος ἐγένετο· οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστιν οὗτος πλὴν ἀὴρ ῥέων πολὺς καὶ ἀθρόος, ὅστις ἅμα καὶ πνεῦμα λέγεται. Καλεῖται δὲ πνεῦμα καὶ ἑτέρως ἥ τε ἐν φυτοῖς καὶ ζῴοις καὶ διὰ πάντων διήκουσα ἔμψυχός τε καὶ γόνιμος οὐσία, περὶ ἧς νῦν λέγειν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον.
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Τὰ δὲ ἐν ἀέρι πνέοντα πνεύματα καλοῦμεν ἀνέμους, αὔρας δὲ τὰς ἐξ ὑγροῦ φερομένας ἐκπνοάς. Τῶν δὲ ἀνέμων οἱ μὲν ἐκ νενοτισμένης γῆς ῥέοντες ἀπόγειοι λέγονται, οἱ δὲ ἐκ κόλπων διεξᾴττοντες ἐγκολπίαι· τούτοις δὲ ἀνάλογόν τι ἔχουσιν οἱ ἐκ ποταμῶν τε καὶ λιμνῶν. Οἱ δὲ κατὰ ῥῆξιν γιγνόμενοι καὶ ἀνάλυσιν τοῦ πάχους εἰς ἑαυτοὺς ποιούμενοι ἐκνεφίαι· μεθ᾽ ὕδατος δὲ ἀθρόου ῥαγέντος ἐξυδρίαι λέγονται.
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Καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς συνεχεῖς εὖροι κέκληνται, βόρεαι δὲ οἱ ἀπὸ ἄρκτου· ζέφυροι δὲ οἱ ἀπὸ δυσμῶν· νότοι δὲ ⟨οἱ⟩ ἀπὸ μεσημβρίας.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 78733 · Wind and living breath
Wind arises from the dry exhalation when cold drives it into a flow. It is nothing other than a great mass of flowing air, which is also called pneuma. In another sense, pneuma also names the animate and generative substance in plants and animals that pervades all things; we need not discuss that now.1017
34 · Local winds and squalls
We call the blasts moving in the air winds, and the breaths coming from water breezes. Winds flowing from moist earth are called land winds; those rushing out of gulfs, gulf winds. Those from rivers and lakes are analogous to these. Winds arising from a rupture and dissolving the dense mass into themselves are called cloud squalls; when accompanied by a mass of water bursting forth, they are called rain squalls.1018
35 · Four principal directions
The continuous winds from the east are called east winds, those from the north north winds, those from the west west winds, and ⟨those⟩ from the south south winds.1019
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