{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg055.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg055.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg055.local001","title":"Testimonia","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Testimonia, FGrH #646: 3C:192–193. NQ: 589: Test. Dup. 0086 051 (frr. 246–247).","citationShort":"Testimonia, FGrH #646: 3C:192–193."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"Testimonia. Testimonia, FGrH #646: 3C:192–193.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg055.local001","excerpt":"ἀπὸ τῆς φύσεως ἔργωι κατενόησεν, ἀξιώσας πέμψαι τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν Μακεδόνα εἰς ἐκείνους τοὺς τόπους, καὶ ὄψει τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς τοῦ Νείλου αὐξήσεως παραλαβεῖν. διό φησιν (F 1 § 10) ὡς τοῦτο «οὐκέτι πρό- βλημά ἐστιν· ὤφθη γὰρ φανερῶς, ὅτι ἐξ ὑετῶν αὔξει».> καὶ 〈λύεται〉 τὸ παράδοξον, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς ξηροτάτοις τόποις τῆς Αἰθιοπίας, ἐν οἷς οὔτε χειμὼν οὔτε ὕδωρ ἐστί, ξυμβαίνει τοῦ θέρους πλείστους ὑετοὺς γίνεσθαι. STRABON 17, 1, 5 p. 789/90: οἱ μὲν οὖν ἀρχαῖοι στοχασμῶι τὸ πλέον, οἱ δ' ὕστεροι αὐτόπται γενηθέντες, ἤισθοντο ὑπὸ ὄμβρων θερινῶν πληρούμενον τὸν Νεῖλον, τῆς Αἰθιοπίας τῆς ἄνω κλυζομένης, καὶ μάλιστα ἐν τοῖς ἐσχάτοις ὄρεσι, παυσαμένων δὲ τῶν ὄμβρων παυομένην κατ' ὀλίγον τὴν πλημμυρίδα. <τοῦτο δ' ὑπῆρξε μάλιστα δῆλον τοῖς πλέουσι τὸν Ἀράβιον κόλπον μέχρι τῆς Κινναμωμοφόρου, καὶ τοῖς ἐκπεμπομένοις ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἐλεφάντων θήραν, καὶ εἴ τινες ἄλλαι χρεῖαι παρώξυνον ἐκεῖσε ἄνδρας…","divisions":[{"label":"3c,646,T","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg055.local001/1-3c-646-t/"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg055.local001/2-section-2/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg055.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg055.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg055/local001.json.gz"}}