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Stoics, 32, 40, 58, 66, 95, 119, 124, 135, 151, 180, 181 (2), 



210, 251, 291, 292, 293, 295 (my school). 

 a Strata, 240. Succeeded Theophrastus as head of the Peri 

 patetic school in 288 B.C. Native of Lampsacus in 

 Mysia on the Hellespont. 



Streaks in the sky, 33. 



Strymon, 5. River of Thrace and Macedonia (Struma). The 

 text of the passage is very doubtful. 



Styx, 137. River in Arcadia. 



Submergence of Helice and Buris, 254, 257, 259, 267, 276, 

 289; of Atalanta, 256; of Sidon, 256; of other cities 

 and nations, 267. 



Subsolane (Wind), 209. 



Sudd, 236 n. 



Sulphur, baneful effects of, in water, 134; supposed to warm 

 water, 136; exists in large quantity underground, 206. 



&quot;Sulphur smell&quot; produced by lightning, 69, 97. 



Sun, size of, 20, 288; eclipse of, 35, 274, 284, 293; draws 

 his sustenance from the earth, 55, 198, 244; movements 

 of, 271 } among the constellations, 301. 



Superstition, 271. 



Surrentum, 221. Town on promontory in Campania. 



Syracuse, 12, 142. 



Syria, 138, 288. 



Tempe, 137. Vale or gorge in Thessaly; see Pencils. 

 Temperature of atmosphere, 60, 183, 184; of various waters, 



136. 



Tension, effects of, 56, 58. 

 Tentyra, 172. Island in the Nile (Denderah), not far from 



Thebes. 

 a Thales, 124, 125, 174, 233. Of Miletus; may be considered 



the father of Greek philosophy, 636-546 B.C. 

 Thebes, 257. Capital of Boeotia. There was a more ancient 



city of the same name in Upper Egypt on whose site are 



the modern Luxor, Karnak, etc. 

 a Theophrastus 122 (3), 129, 138, 139, 141, 172,240,303. 



Of Lesbos, favourite pupil and successor of Aristotle, 



head of Peripatetic school, 322-287 B.C. 

 Therasia and There (Thera), 252. Small volcanic islands in 



the group called Sporades, S. of Cyclades. 

 Thessaly, 137, 257. 



Thrace and Thracians, 5, 161, 173, 254. 

 a Thucydides, 256, 258. 

 Thunderings, 62, 67 ; different kinds of, 75 ; causes of, 98. 



