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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.45.21–I.49.45.22
Ancient Greek
p. 133645.21
Ἄλλως τε ὁ μὲν νότος, ὦ παῖ, δεκτικὸς ὢν τῶν ἐκ τοῦ περιέχοντος συνισταμένων νεφῶν * * (αὐτίκα γοῦν καὶ διὰ τὴν οὕτως αὐτῶν γενομένην ἐκεῖ κατακομιδὴν ἐκεῖθεν ῥεῖν λέγουσιν καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον πο⟨ταμὸν⟩ λυομένης ἐκεῖ τῆς πάχνης)· ὅπου δ᾽ ἂν ἐμπέσῃ νεφέλη, τὸν ἐπικείμενον ἤχλυσεν ἀέρα καὶ τρόπον τινὰ καπνοῦ κατεκόμισε, καπνὸς δὲ ἡ ἀχλὺς οὐ μόνον ὀμμάτων ἐστὶν ἐμπόδιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ νοῦ.
45.22
Ὁ δὲ ἀπηλιώτης, ὦ μεγαλόδοξε Ὧρε, τῇ συνεχεῖ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀνατολῇ θορυβούμενος καὶ ἐκθερμαινόμενος, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ὁ ἀντικείμενος τούτῳ λὶψ μετέχων τῶν αὐτῶν κατὰ δυσμὰς οὐδεμίαν εἰλικρινῆ ἐπίστασιν ποιοῦνται τῶν παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς γεννωμένων ἀνθρώπων. Ὁ δὲ βορέας τῇ συμφώνῳ ψυχρίᾳ ἀποπήσσει μετὰ τῶν σωμάτων καὶ τὸν νοῦν τῶν ὑπ᾽ αὐτὸν ἀνθρώπων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 133745.21 · Southern clouds and obscured understanding
Moreover, the south, my child, being receptive to the clouds that gather from the surrounding atmosphere * * (indeed, because they are thus carried down there, people say that our ⟨river⟩ too flows from there as the frost melts there). Wherever a cloud descends, it makes the overlying air misty and brings down, in a fashion, something of smoke. Mist is smoke, an obstacle not only to the eyes but also to the mind.1614
45.22 · East, west, and north
The east, Horus of great renown, is continually disturbed and heated by the rising of the Sun; likewise the southwest opposite it shares the same effects at sunset. They provide no clear mental attention in the human beings born in their regions. The north, with its corresponding cold, freezes the minds of those beneath it along with their bodies.1615
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