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ὑπολείπεσθαι, ‘to let some remain behind with himself,’ i. e. as nourishment. This is the theory of Thales that the sun and the stars were fed by water; later, the Stoics adopted it in the form that the sun was nourished by the sea ( Cic. de Nat. Deo. ii. 15cum sol igneus sit Oceanique alatur humoribus”); cf. for it Milton, P. L. v. 423-5: “The sun, that light imparts to all, receives
From all his alimental recompense
In humid exhalations.

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