Theophrastus De signis tempestatum 4

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 τὸ add. Sch. ² cf. 45.
2. 3 σπάλακα Vulg.; σπάκα Bas. Ald.; σκολόπακα (woodcock ?) conj. Furl.
3. 4 i. e. (reading σκολόπακα) for the bird to find worms in with its long beak (Sch.). It is hard to say, without illus-
4. ¹ κηλάδες I conj. cf. 31, to which this statement answers. κοιλάδες MSS.
5. ² Plin. 18 356. Plin. 18. 357. cf. Verg. Georg. 1. 401. 4 Plin. 18. 401.
6. ³ ἐν χειμῶν. ? ‘in winter.’ The same ambiguity occurs in many places: the sense seems fixed here by the next sentence.
7. 1 cf. 41. ² cf. 14, 25, 42.
8. 3 H. P. 7. 13. 6 the same is said of σκίλλα.
9. ¹ cf. 34; Arist. Meteor. 1. 6.
10. ² Text seems doubtful, as cold weather was included above.