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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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ἀναθυμίασις
anathymiasisAnathymiasis names material rising from below, especially from earth or water.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordAnathymiasis names material rising from below, especially from earth or water.
- In StobaeusThe Aristotelian weather report derives rain and other precipitation from moist exhalation.
- In this edition“Exhalation” retains the physical substance or process intended.
- A place to beginMoist exhalation produces several kinds of precipitation.
- English renderings
- exhalation; rising vapor
Meaning
Anathymiasis names material rising from below, especially from earth or water. Accounts may distinguish dry and moist kinds and make them causes of different phenomena.
Use in the book
The Aristotelian weather report derives rain and other precipitation from moist exhalation. The wind account begins from dry exhalation, though it allows mixing with the moist. In the earthquake account the same kind of material shakes the ground when confined beneath it. Exhalation connects processes above and below ground without making their conditions identical.
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Translation in this edition
“Exhalation” retains the physical substance or process intended. It does not necessarily mean an organism’s breath or a modern chemical gas.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 243–244, 248–249.
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Empedocles’ The Testimonia, Volume II
Empedocles of Acragas · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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θυμιαθῆναι (thymiathēnai); ἀναθυμιαθῆναι (anathymiathēnai)
The printed verb describes being exhaled or sent off as vapour; the prefixed form occurs in the apparatus as a reading associated with Galen and Reiske.
Orientation
At a Glance
- The wordThe printed verb describes being exhaled or sent off as vapour; the prefixed form occurs in the apparatus as a reading associated with Galen and Reiske.
- In this workIn Aëtius’ A49 sequence, water gushes from earth compressed by rotation, and air is then exhaled from the water.
- In this editionDo not replace the transmitted sequence with a modern evaporation explanation.
- A place to readPlaces the exhalation of air after water’s emergence from compressed earth.
Meaning
The printed verb describes being exhaled or sent off as vapour; the prefixed form occurs in the apparatus as a reading associated with Galen and Reiske. The root of the image is a rising or smoking-off process, not modern atmospheric chemistry.
Use in the book
In Aëtius’ A49 sequence, water gushes from earth compressed by rotation, and air is then exhaled from the water. This is a compact account of material differentiation. Because the dossier elsewhere makes the roots eternal and unchangeable, the notice raises a question: does it describe release of material already present in a mixture, or a reporter’s compressed account that sounds like transmutation? The passage does not spell out the answer.
The lexicon therefore records the sequence without silently converting it into one root becoming another. It also preserves the distinction between air and aither in the same notice: aither separates first and supplies heaven, while the air here appears later from water. That contrast may be important for understanding the witness’s vocabulary, even if it cannot establish a stable terminology across all testimonia.
Places to read
- A 49 (testimony)Aëtius II 6,3. Places the exhalation of air after water’s emergence from compressed earth.
- A 49 (apparatus)Diels, apparatus reporting Galen and Reiske. Records ἀναθυμιαθῆναι as a variant for the printed verb.
Translation in this edition
Do not replace the transmitted sequence with a modern evaporation explanation. The report’s relation to the invariant-root thesis remains an interpretative problem.