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16 Our senses, moreover, often deceive us and we imagine, when we touch cold garments or cold wool, that we are touching moist objects: this is because wet and cold have a common substance and their natures have a close affinity and relationship. In very cold climates the low temperature often breaks vessels whether they are of bronze or of clay - not, of course, when they are empty, but only when they are full and the water exerts pressure by means of its coldness. Theophrastus,The fragment is apparently omitted by Wimmer. to be sure, declares that the air breaks these vessels, using the liquid as a spike. But take careThis seems to be addressed to Favorinus’s Peripatetic sympathies. that there isn’t more wit than truth in such a remark! For if it were so, vessels full of pitch or of milk would more readily be broken by the air.That is, than those full of water.