Theophrastus De signis tempestatum 2

ed. Arthur Hort

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

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

Notes on the current edition

Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ So called also by Pind. Nem. 5. 19. Paus. 2. 30. 3 calls it the temple of Ζεῦς Πανελλήνιος. καὶ bracketed by Sch.
2. 2 cf. C.P. 2. 2.
3. ¹ Plin. 18. 343 suggests that this is the meaning: text perhaps defective. cf. Verg. Georg. 1. 445.
4. 2 cf. 38.
5. 3 Lit. ‘ the crescent moon has a northerly character.’ ἡ ἄνω add. Furl.
6. ¹ cf. 40: Plin. 18. 359: Verg. Georg. 1. 356.
7. 2 cf. Arist. Probl. 26. 12 ad fin.
8. 3 ξηραίνει, ὑγραίνει seem to be used quasi-impersonally; but the text is perhaps defective.
9. 4 νότια MSS.; βόρεια conj. Furl., surely with good reason. cf. Arist. Probl. 1. 24.
10. 5 After δεξιὸν Sch. and W. mark a lacuna, which does not seem necessary. 6 cf. Arist. H.A. 9. 6 ad fin.
11. ¹ κηλάδες, i.e. a ‘mackerel sky’ (?) The word seems to occur nowhere else except in Hesych., who renders ἄνυδρος: derivation obscure. It should probably be read in § 51 for κοιλάδες. ² Plin. 18. 354.
12. ³ ἄν. Sc. εἶναι, which perhaps should be added.
13. 1 cf. 22. 2 cf. 57.
14. 3 cf. de Ventis 50; Arist Probl. 26. 3. 4 cf. 14, 25, 42, 54.
15. 5 The ‘figure’ (giving points of the compass) has not been preserved. Arist. Meteor. 2. 6. describes such a figure (ὑπο- γραφή), which may be reconstructed thus :—
16. ¹ Ι have bracketed ἢ βορέας as probably a gloss on ἀπαρκτίας; ἢ is difficult to account for otherwise. See diagram.
17. ² Plin. 18. 360.