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Book I Chapter 17 · I.17.4.1–I.17.4.3
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p. 3984 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Χρύσιππος δὲ τοιοῦτόν τι διεβεβαιοῦτο· εἶναι τὸ ὂν πνεῦμα κινοῦν ἑαυτὸ πρὸς ἑαυτὸ καὶ ἐξ αὑτοῦ, ἢ πνεῦμα ἑαυτὸ κινοῦν πρόσω καὶ ὀπίσω· πνεῦμα δὲ εἴληπται διὰ τὸ λέγεσθαι αὐτὸ ἀέρα εἶναι κινούμενον· ἀνάλογον δὲ γίνεσθαι κἀπὶ τοῦ αἰθέρος, ὥστε καὶ εἰς κοινὸν λόγον πεσεῖν αὐτόν.
4 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 2
Ἡ τοιαύτη δὲ κίνησις κατὰ μόνους γίνεται τοὺς νομίζοντας τὴν οὐσίαν πᾶσαν μεταβολὴν ἐπιδέχεσθαι καὶ σύγχυσιν καὶ σύστασιν καὶ σύμμιξιν καὶ σύμφυσιν καὶ τὰ τούτοις παραπλήσια. Διαφέρειν γὰρ ἀρέσκει τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς Στωικῆς αἱρέσεως παράθεσιν, μῖξιν, κρᾶσιν, σύγχυσιν.
4 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 3
Παράθεσιν μὲν γὰρ εἶναι σωμάτων συναφὴν κατὰ τὰς ἐπιφανείας, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν σωρῶν ὁρῶμεν, ἐν οἷς πυροί τε καὶ κριθαὶ καὶ φακοὶ καὶ εἴ τινα τούτοις ἄλλα παραπλήσια περιέχεται καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τῶν αἰγιαλῶν ψήφων καὶ ἄμμων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 17
p. 3994 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Chrysippus, part 1
Chrysippus firmly maintained something of this kind: what exists is breath moving itself toward itself and out of itself, or breath moving itself forward and backward. Breath is specified because it is said to be air in motion; something analogous occurs with aether too, so that it also falls under a common account.478
4 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Kinds of combination
Such motion occurs only on the account of those who hold that substance admits every kind of change: fusion, composition, mixing, growing together, and the like. For the followers of the Stoic school hold that juxtaposition, mixture, blending, and fusion differ from one another.479
4 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is contact between bodies at their surfaces, as we observe in heaps containing wheat, barley, lentils, and anything else of that kind, and in the pebbles and sand on beaches.480
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