Theophrastus De signis tempestatum 1

ed. Arthur Hort

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De signis tempestatum. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2016.

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Concerning Weather Signs (Greek) (Theophrastus, Concerning Weather Signs, Hort, Harvard, 1927)

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ ἀντιμεθίστανται. ? ἀντιμεθίσταται.
2. ² Plin. 5. 140. Of Matriketas nothing is knowD.
3. ³ Said ”Plin. 2 31) to have first recognised the Ram and the Archer. Athen. (7. 278 b) connects him with Tenedos.
4. ¹ τὸν ὑπογ. τρόπον seems to mean the same as the Aristote- lian τὸν ὑφηγημένον τρόπον, e.g. Eth. Nic. 2. 7. 9. The rendering ‘the following method’ would however suit the context.
5. ¹ cf. 37. ² ὕδατος ins. Furl. ³ Plin. 18. 344.
6. ⁴ Plin. 18. 356. 5 ὑετοῦ δὲ σημεῖα bracketed by Sch.
7. 6 cf. Arist. Meteor. 3. 4; Plut. Quaest. Nat. 1. 2.
8. 7 cf. 42.
9. 8. i.e. breaks up into small ‘grains’) (?) cf. 25, 42, 54.
10. ¹ Plin. 18. 364; Verg. Georg. 1. 375.
11. ² ἐπιρροιζήσῃ. Sc. with his wings probably; not, as LS. ‘croaks.’ Plin. (18. 362) seems to have had a fuller text, or to have drawn also on some other authority.
12. ³ ὑετῶν ὄντων can hardly mean ‘while it is raining.’
13. ¹ Sch. cites Plin. 18. 364, vermes terreni erumpentes, as representing this, which seems doubtful.
14. 2 cf. Plin. 18. 361; Cic. Div. 2. 70.
15. ³ ἐὰν τῷ. ? ἐὰν ἐν τῷ.
16. ¹ Evidently an Attic saying, of days when only the upper part of the Εuboean mountains was visible.