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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordEmphasis is an appearance produced or presented in another medium.
- In StobaeusThe cloud is treated as a mirror-like surface in the explanations of rainbow, luminous rod, and halo.
- In this edition“Appearance” is natural; “reflected image” can clarify the mechanism the source proposes.
- A place to beginRainbow, rod, and halo are distinguished as luminous appearances.
- English renderings
- appearance; reflected image
Meaning
Emphasis is an appearance produced or presented in another medium. In the optical passage it concerns a visible image, not rhetorical stress on a word.
Use in the book
The cloud is treated as a mirror-like surface in the explanations of rainbow, luminous rod, and halo. Their appearances differ in form and in position relative to the luminous body. The term helps describe what is seen without identifying the appearance as a separate celestial body.
Places to read
- I.40.1.45Rainbow, rod, and halo are distinguished as luminous appearances.
Translation in this edition
“Appearance” is natural; “reflected image” can clarify the mechanism the source proposes. The modern English “emphasis” is unsuitable.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 266. The account is the ancient source’s optical explanation; the word does not by itself validate every part of that mechanism.