Theophrastus De signis tempestatum 3

ed. Arthur Hort

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 i.e. and the succeeding day will be more or less stormy in proportion. ἀπολειφθείη ? ἀποληφθείη =‘may be obscured.’
2. ² cf. 27. i.e. it is possible, more or less, to see the whole circle.
3. ¹ τευθίδες. The word is perhaps corrupt and conceals the name of a bird
4. 2 cf. 21, 29. πολύπλοκον is Furlanus’ conj. for Vulg. πολύποδον.
5. ³ πνεύμονες. Plin. 18. 359. pulmones: cf. 9. 154.
6. ¹ ὄνου φάτνη. cf. 23, 51. See LS, s.ν. ὄνοs ; Theocr. 22.
7. 21. Plin. 18. 353, sunt in signo Cancri duae stellae parvae
8. ¹ Γυρῶν. γυροῦν W, Heraclides gives γυρεὸν, Plut. γυρεῦον; but one MS. of Plut. gives γύρων with a marginal gloss ‘sc. πετρῶν,’ which suggests that the word is a proper name. Od. 4. 500 mentions the Γὐραι (i.e. the ‘round-backed rocks’)