# Concerning Odours 163.1

Theophrastus, Concerning Odours, Fragment 163. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theophrastus/concerning-odours/163.1

Fr. 163 Διὰ τί χειμῶνος μᾶλλον ἢ θέρους τὰ τῶν ἁλιέων σήπεται δίκτυα; καίτοι τά γε ἄλλα μᾶλλον τῷ θέρει τοῦτο πάσχει. Πότερον, ὡς Θ. οἴεται, τῷ ψυχρῷ τὸ θερμὸν ὑποχωροῦν ἀντπεριίσταται καὶ θερμότερα ποιεῖ τὰ ἐν βάθει τῆς θαλάσσης ὥσπερ τῆς γῆς· διὸ καὶ τὰ πηγαῖα τῶν ὑδάτων χλιαρώτερα τοῦ χειμῶνός εἰσι καὶ μᾶλλον ἀτμίζουσι αἱ λίμναι καὶ οἱ ποταμοί· κατακλείεται γὰρ εἰς βάθος ἡ θερμότης ὑπὸ τοῦ ψυχροῦ κρατήσαντος. (Plut. Quaest. nat. p. 915.)

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Theophrastus, Concerning Odours, ed. Friedrich Wimmer. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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