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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.45.2
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p. 26045 Πλάτωνος, Τιμαίου· συνέχεια
Ὡς δὲ κινηθὲν αὐτὸ καὶ ζῶν ἐνόησε τῶν ἀϊδίων θεῶν γεγονὸς ἄγαλμα ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ, ἠγάσθη τε καὶ εὐφρανθεὶς ἔτι δὴ μᾶλλον ὅμοιον πρὸς τὸ παράδειγμα ἐπενόησεν ἀπεργάσασθαι. Καθάπερ οὖν αὐτὸ τυγχάνει ζῷον ἀΐδιον, καὶ τόδε τὸ πᾶν οὕτως εἰς δύναμιν ἐπεχείρησε τοιοῦτον ἀποτελεῖν. Ἡ μὲν οὖν τοῦ ζῴου φύσις ἐτύγχανεν οὖσα αἰώνιος· καὶ τοῦτο μὲν δὴ παντελῶς τῷ γενητῷ προσάπτειν οὐκ ἦν δυνατόν· εἰκόνα δ’ ἐπενόει κινητήν τινα αἰῶνος ποιῆσαι καὶ διακοσμῶν οὐρανῷ ἅμα ποιεῖ μένοντος αἰῶνος ἐν ἑνὶ κατ’ ἀριθμὸν ἰοῦσαν αἰώνιον εἰκόνα, τοῦτον ὃν δὴ χρόνον ὠνομάκαμεν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 26145 Plato, Timaeus, continued
When the father who begot it saw it moving and alive, a created image of the everlasting gods, he admired it. Delighted, he conceived the plan of making it still more like its model. As the model itself is an everlasting living being, so he attempted, as far as possible, to make this whole universe such a being too. Now the nature of that living being was eternal, and it was impossible to attach this character in its entirety to what had come to be. He therefore conceived the plan of making a moving image of eternity. As he put things in order, he made, together with heaven, an enduring image of eternity: eternity remains in unity, while its image advances according to number. This image is what we have named time.295
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