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Stobaeus, Volume I
John Stobaeus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThalassa is the sea.
- In StobaeusThe chapter on the sea itself has lost its running text.
- In this edition“Flood” and “ebb” describe opposite movements.
- A place to beginThe sea chapter survives as a heading with missing text.
- English renderings
- sea; ebb; flood; tides
Meaning
Thalassa is the sea. Ampōtis names the withdrawing ebb, and plēmmyra the advancing flood. The terms distinguish opposite movements within the tidal cycle.
Use in the book
The chapter on the sea itself has lost its running text. The surviving tidal notices offer different causes: Aristotle and Heraclides are assigned an account in which sun-driven winds move the Atlantic sea, whereas Pytheas relates the two tidal effects to the moon’s filling and waning. The brief lunar report supplies no detailed timetable or mechanism.
Places to read
- I.37.headingThe sea chapter survives as a heading with missing text.
- I.38.1Sun-driven winds explain advancing and retreating water.
- I.38.3Pytheas relates the effects to the moon.
Translation in this edition
“Flood” and “ebb” describe opposite movements. The lost sea chapter cannot supply an explanation of salinity beyond the question preserved in its restored heading.
Source note
Wachsmuth, volume I, printed pp. 252.