# Naturalis Historia 5.55

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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55] Causas huius incrementi varias prodidere, sed maxime probabiles etesiarum eo tempore ex adverso flantium repercussum, ultra in ora acto mari, aut imbres Aethiopiae aestivos, isdem etesiis nubila illo ferentibus e reliquo orbe. Timaeus mathematicus occultam protulit rationem: Phialam appellari fontem eius, mergique in cuniculos ipsum amnem vapore anhelantem, fumidis cautibus ubi conditur. verum sole per eos dies comminus facto extrahi ardoris vi et suspensum abundare ac, ne devoretur, abscondi.

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