SOME OF GERCKE'S READINGS 



Rendering in the Text. 

 P- 5> 7> the Strymon. 



8, i, the explanation . . . 



Philosophy. 



9, 2, such as ... answer 



me. 

 20, 10, an oar . . . water. 



37, i, Bothynae (cave- 

 like . . .). 



40, 3, one has seen . . . 

 ( = star-struck). 



40, 4, of which more anon. 



41, 7, For we judge . . . 



foreign body. 



II. 51, 2, After "rain, snow," 



56, 2, hold together as one 



body. 

 63, 4, on account of ... 



clouds. 



348 



Translation of Gercke's Text, 

 the Danube and the Bal- 

 kans, 

 my opinion. 



which each knows the other 

 cannot answer. 



an oar is covered with 

 shallow water and pre- 

 sents a broken appear- 

 ance. 



putei (well-like . . .). 



what is struck by them we 

 call smitten with a flash, 

 that is, struck without 

 lightning-bolt, what the 

 Greeks call oo-TepoTrA^KTo, 

 ( = star-struck). 



of which we have spoken. 



But we judge that it is the 

 deceptive appearance of 

 a mirror, which merely 

 gives a counterfeit repre- 

 sentation of a foreign 

 body. 



add " winds, earthquakes, 

 lightnings." 



be subject to tension. 



when it has accumulated, 

 is thrust violently upward 

 by the massing of the 

 clouds. 



