"Summer is the heating of the air above the earth on the sun's trip towards the north."
*qe/ros: qe/ros e)sti\n o( u(pe\r gh=s a)h\r kataqalpo/menos th=| tou= h(li/ou pro\s a)/rkton porei/a|.
For this same headword, again in the nominative, see
theta 255.
The quotation closely approximates
Diogenes Laertius 7.152, from the life of the Stoic philosopher
Zeno of
Kition (Citium); cf.
zeta 79,
kappa 1685, and OCD(4) s.v.
Zeno(2). This passage concerns the physics of
Zeno and his fellow Stoic
Chrysippus (cf.
chi 569 and OCD(4) s.v.).
The phrase
pro\s a)/rkton literally means
to the Bear, i.e. the constellation Ursa Major (cf.
alpha 3961).
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