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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.40b.2–I.8.40c
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p. 24440b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩· συνέχεια
Μέτρον βραδύτητος ἢ τάχους εἶπε Χρύσιππος.
Ἑστιαῖος ὁ Περίνθιος φυσικὸς φορὰν ἄστρων πρὸς ἄλληλα.
Στράτων τὸ ἐν κινήσει καὶ ἠρεμίᾳ ποσόν.
Ἐπίκουρος σύμπτωμα ⟨συμπτωμάτων⟩, τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ παρακολούθημα κινήσεων.
Ἀντιφᾶν καὶ Κριτόλαος νόημα ἢ μέτρον τὸν χρόνον, οὐδ’ ὑπόστασιν.
40c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩· Ἀριστοτέλους
Τὸν δὲ χρόνον ἀριθμὸν εἶναι κινήσεως κατὰ τὸ πρότερον καὶ τὸ ὕστερον, οὔτ’ ἀρχὴν ἔχοντα οὔτε τελευτήν, ἀλλ’ ἀεὶ ὄντα καὶ ἀεὶ γιγνόμενον, εἶναι δὲ συνεχῆ καὶ διαιρετόν, λαμβάνεσθαι γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὸ μὲν πρότερον τὸ δ’ ὕστερον, ὅρον δ’ ὑπάρχειν ἑκατέρων τὸ νῦν, τοῦτο γὰρ νοεῖσθαι τοῦ μὲν προτέρου πέρας, τοῦ δὲ μέλλοντος ἀρχήν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 24540b ⟨Aëtius⟩, continued
Chrysippus called it a measure of slowness or speed.
Hestiaeus of Perinthus, the natural philosopher, called it the movement of the stars relative to one another.
Strato called it the quantity in motion and rest.
Epicurus called it an accident ⟨of accidents⟩, that is, an accompaniment of motions.
Antiphan and Critolaus called time a conception or measure, not an independently subsisting reality.277
40c ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Aristotle
Time is the number of motion in respect of before and after. It has neither beginning nor end, but always is and always comes to be. It is continuous and divisible, since one portion of it is taken as earlier and another as later. The now is the boundary of both: it is conceived as the end of what precedes and the beginning of what is to come.278
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