Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, ed. William W. Goodwin, 7

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Question 7.

What sort of clouds are the Ploiades?

Solution.

Showering clouds which were carried up and down were, for the most part, called Ploiades, as Theophrastus hath said expressly in his fourth book of Meteors:

Whereas indeed the Ploiades are those clouds which have a consistency and are not so movable, but as to color white, which discover a kind of different matter, neither very watery nor very windy.

Quaestiones Graecae. Plutarch. ed. William W. Goodwin. Boston. 1874.

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Greek Questions (English) (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. II. Goodwin, William W., editor; Chauncy, Isaac translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.)

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Αἴτια Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7] τίνες αἱ πλωιάδες νεφέλαι;

τὰς ὑπόμβρους μάλιστα καὶ περιφερομένας ἐκάλουν πλωιάδας, ὡς Θεόφραστος ἐν τετάρτῃ περὶ μεταρσίων εἴρηκε κατὰ λέξιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ αἱ πλωιάδες αὗται νεφέλαι αἱ καὶ αἱ συνεστῶσαι, 292d ἀκίνητοι δὲ καὶ τοῖς χρώμασιν ἔκλευκοι, δηλοῦσι διαφοράν τινα τῆς ὕλης, ὡς οὔτʼ ἐξυδατουμένης οὔτʼ ἐκπνευματουμένης.

Κεφαλαίων καταγραφή Ἑλληνικά Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol IΙ. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.) — 7 focus

[7] τίνες αἱ πλωιάδες νεφέλαι; τὰς ὑπόμβρους μάλιστα καὶ περιφερομένας ἐκάλουν πλωιάδας, ὡς 5 Θεόφραστος ἐν τετάρτῃ περὶ μεταρσίων εἴρηκε κατὰ λέξιν ἐπεὶ καὶ αἱ πλωιάδες αὗται νεφέλαι καὶ αἱ συνεστῶσαι, ἀκίνητοι δὲ καὶ τοῖς χρώμασιν ἔκλευκοι, 292d δηλοῦσι διαφοράν τινα τῆς ὕλης, ὡς οὔτʼ ἐξυδατουμένης οὔτʼ ἐκπνευματουμένης.

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The Greek Questions Perseus (Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. IV. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7] What were the floating clouds?

They used to call clouds floating which particularly threatened rain and were in constant motion, as Theophrastus has stated in the fourth book of his Meteorology. The passage reads thus: Since also these floating clouds and these compact clouds, which are immovable and very white in colour, exhibit a certain difference of substance which is filled neither with water nor with wind.

Plutarch Quaestiones Graecae 7

ed. William W. Goodwin

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