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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThrausis is breaking or fracture.
- In StobaeusThe report about Empedocles links the quenching and breaking of incoming light with a crash, while its shining produces lightning.
- In this edition“Breaking up” is suitably broad for the compressed account.
- A place to beginBreaking and quenching are invoked to explain the crash associated with lightning.
- English renderings
- breaking; fracture; breaking up
Meaning
Thrausis is breaking or fracture. It can describe disruption in a compressed physical explanation without identifying a solid object split into visible pieces.
Use in the book
The report about Empedocles links the quenching and breaking of incoming light with a crash, while its shining produces lightning. The relative pronoun is difficult because air intervenes in the sentence. The entry can explain breaking without pretending the precise physical subject is beyond dispute.
Places to read
- I.29.1.6Breaking and quenching are invoked to explain the crash associated with lightning.
Translation in this edition
“Breaking up” is suitably broad for the compressed account.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 232. The pronoun most naturally returns to light, but the intervening mention of resisting air leaves the construction compressed and uncertain.