Histories

How can it flow from snow, then, seeing that it comes from the hottest places to lands that are for the most part cooler? In fact, for a man who can reason about such things, the principal and strongest evidence that the river is unlikely to flow from snows is that the winds blowing from Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya and Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), AfricaEthiopia are hot.

In the second place, the country is rainless and frostless; but after snow has fallen, it has to rain within five days[*](It does not seem to be known what authority there is for this assertion.) ; so that if it snowed, it would rain in these lands. And thirdly, the men of the country are black because of the heat.