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‘ σκότου ἀτραπὸν ...
’ φάσκοντας: ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὸν
Ὅμηρον ‘νυκτὶ καὶ ζόφῳ τὰ πρόσωπα κατέχεσθαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων λέγοντα καὶ τὸν ἣλιον ἐξαπολωλέναι
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ’ περὶ τὴν σελήνην καὶ ... τοῦτο
γίγνεσθαι πέφυκε ‘τοῦ μὲν φθίνοντος μηνὸς τοῦ δ᾽
ἱσταμένοιο’ . τὰ λοιπὰ δ᾽ οἶμαι ταῖς μαθηματικαῖς ἀκριβείαις εἰς τὸν ... ἐξῆχθαι καὶ βέβαιον, ὡς ἥ γε νύξ
[p. 435] ἐστι σκιὰ γῆς, ἡ δ᾽ ἔκλειψις τοῦ ἡλίου σκιὰ σελήνης, ὅταν ἡ ὄψις ἐν αὐτῇ γένηται. δυόμενος γὰρ ὑπὸ τῆς γῆς ἀντιφράττεται πρὸς τὴν ὄψιν, ἐκλιπὼν δ᾽ ὑπὸ τῆς σελήνης: ἀμφότεραι δ᾽ εἰσὶν ἐπισκοτήσεις, ἀλλ᾽ ἡ μὲν
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1893. 5.
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