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Book I Chapter 52 · I.52.21.2–I.52.21.3
Ancient Greek
p. 165421.2
ἐνυπόκειται δὲ καὶ τᾷ ὄψι καὶ τῷ ἀέρι [καὶ] τὸ δυνάμι διαφανές, ἀλλὰ τᾷ μὲν ὄψι τὸ συγγενὲς φάος, τῷ δὲ ἀέρι τὸ ἀπὸ τῶ ἁλίου.
21.3
Ὅτι δὲ ἁ ὄψις ὑγρὰ ἔασσα φάος ἔχει συγγενές, δείξαιτό κά τις ἐκ τῶνδε· πρᾶτον μὲν τῷ διαφανέα καὶ λαμπρὰν εἶμεν· πᾶν γὰρ τὸ διαφανὲς καὶ λαμπρὸν οὐκ ἄνευ τινὸς φάεος * * ἐκ τᾶς ὄψιος ἢ διά τινος παραθλίψιος ἢ καὶ παρατρίψιος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 52
p. 165521.2 · The eye’s own light
“Underlying both the eye and the air is [also] what is potentially transparent; but in the eye there is its kindred light, and in the air the light from the sun.”2014
21.3 · Pressure, rubbing, and light
“That the eye, though moist, possesses its own kindred light could be shown from the following: first, from its being transparent and bright; for everything transparent and bright is not without some light * * from the eye, either through some pressure upon it or through rubbing.”2015
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