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John Stobaeus

Stobaeus, Volume I

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Book I Chapter 19 · I.19.1.3–I.19.1.4

Ancient Greek

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1 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3

I.19.1.3

Διόδωρος ὁ Κρόνος κεκινῆσθαι μέν τι, κινεῖσθαι δὲ μηδέν.

Ἡράκλειτος ἠρεμίαν μὲν καὶ στάσιν ἐκ τῶν ὅλων ἀνῄρει, κίνησιν δὲ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀπεδίδου.

1 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4

I.19.1.4

Ἡρόφιλος κινήσεως τὴν μὲν λόγῳ θεωρητήν, τὴν δὲ αἰσθητήν.

Ἀσκληπιάδης πᾶσαν κίνησιν αἰσθητὴν ἀπεφήνατο.

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Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 19

p. 431

1 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Diodorus and Heraclitus

I.19.1.3

Diodorus Cronus held that something has moved, but nothing is moving.527

Heraclitus excluded rest and stillness from the universe, assigning motion to all things.

1 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Reason and perception

I.19.1.4

Herophilus distinguished motion apprehended by reason from motion apprehended by the senses.

Asclepiades declared that all motion is perceptible.528

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Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.

Historical Text and Translation

The Greek follows Curt Wachsmuth’s 1884 Volume I, checked against the supplied scan. Gaps, lost-chapter headings, and uncertain attributions remain visible. Chapter 2 includes a labeled proposed reconstruction. The appendix outlines Books I–IV; the full texts of Books II–IV are outside this volume. Reader pages preserve the companion PDF’s numbering.

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