Примери за използване на Poseidonius на Английски и техните преводи на Български
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In other words, the result of Poseidonius is too indefinite.
But, says Poseidonius, this is false, as also the statement that night follows instantly upon sunset;
This Titus Flaminius, who must have lived"within the recollection" of Poseidonius, is otherwise unknown.
Some, like Polybius and Poseidonius, say they are six, dividing the torrid zone into two.
But while we should excuse him and Dicaearchus who had never seen these districts,how can we excuse Polybius and Poseidonius?
For on the contrary, Poseidonius correctly says, the coast-lands are for the most part sandy and low.
At the beginning of§ 8 Strabo sets out, rather captiously, to prove inconsistency andinjustice on the part of Poseidonius.
Poseidonius states that the isthmus is fifteen hundred stadia across, as wide as the isthmus from Pelusium to the Red Sea.
And the part that is trenched is filled up again in the course of time, since, as Poseidonius says, the earth that is poured into the trenches changes to asphalt.
Poseidonius, too, believes this to be the most plausible account of the matter, 158 but that the oracle and the many expeditions from Tyre are a Phoenician lie.
But while we must pardon Eratosthenes and Dicaearchus, because they had not seen those regions with their own eyes, yetwho could pardon Polybius and Poseidonius?
And if one must believe Poseidonius, the ancient dogma about atoms originated with Mochus, a Sidonian, born before the Trojan times.
Neither, in fact, did he see it at any other point on the ocean-coast,for Gades is also on the ocean, and Poseidonius and several others bear witness against him.
And this, of course, is why Poseidonius says that Aristotle is incorrect in making the coast-line72 and Maurusia the cause of the flood-tides and the ebb-tides;
Indeed, to engage in philosophical p53 discussion with everybody is unseemly, but it is honourable to do so with Eratosthenes,Hipparchus, Poseidonius, Polybius, and others of their type.
I do not know how Poseidonius, who in other instances has represented the Phoenicians as clever p149 people, can here charge them with foolishness rather than shrewdness.
And this would be the result even if we assume that the Euxine Sea is deeper than the Sea of Sardinia,54which is said to be the deepest of all the seas that have been sounded- about one thousand fathoms, as Poseidonius states.
Further, Poseidonius, in marking off the boundaries of the island by means of the"climata,"87 puts Pelorias towards the north, Lilybaeum towards the south, and Pachynus towards the east.
Because Polybius went on to say that Tiberius Gracchus destroyed three hundred cities in Celtiberia, Poseidonius[3] makes fun of him, saying that the man did this merely to gratify Gracchus, for he called the towers cities just as they do in the triumphal processions.
Poseidonius also tells of a tree189 in Gades which has branches that bend to the ground, and oftentimes has leaves(they are sword-like) a cubit in length but only four fingers in breadth.
In accordance with these hopes of his he gladly sent an army to Chersonesus, and at the same time carried on war against the Scythians, not only against Scilurus, butalso the sons of Scilurus- Palacus19 and the rest- who, according to Poseidonius were fifty in number, but according to Apollonides20 were eighty.
Though the works of Poseidonius are lost, it is obvious that he properly fixed the position of the three vertices of the triangle according to the method of his time by the"climata," i.e.
Poseidonius asks how one could determine the limits of the temperate zones, which are non-variable, by means of the"arctic circles," which are neither visible among all men nor the same everywhere.
And it is peculiar to Iberia, according to Poseidonius, that the crows are black there and also that the slightly dappled horses of Celtiberia change their colour when they brought over to Farther Iberia.
Poseidonius says it is clear that these things are peculiar to those zones from the fact that the people who live farther south than they do have a more temperate atmosphere, and also a more fruitful, and a better-watered, country.
For example, it is a general saying among the people, according to Poseidonius, that in the regions along the coast of the ocean the sun is larger when it sets, and that it sets with a noise much as if the sea were sizzling to extinguish it because of its falling into the depths.
But Poseidonius says that, since it was a lake, it solidified while the waves were dashing, and because of this was parted into a number of stones- as are the river-rocks and the pebbles on the sea-shore;
Strabo rightly, butrather captiously, remarks that Poseidonius cannot by means of the"climata" mark off the boundaries of Sicily, since the triangle is merely inscribed in the parallelogram and no side of it coincides with any side of the parallelogram;
Poseidonius goes on to say of the Mysians that in accordance with their religion they abstain from eating any living thing, and therefore from their flocks as well; and that they use as food honey and milk and cheese, living a peaceable life, and for this reason are called both“god-fearing” and“capnobatae”…”[15].
At any rate, Poseidonius says that he himself saw this spectacle in many places, and that, although at first he loathed it, afterwards, through his familiarity with it, he could bear it calmly.