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Book I Chapter 22 · I.22.2.1–I.22.2.3
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p. 5422 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · 1
Ὅμηρος τὸν αἰθέρα τοῦ ἀέρος ὑψηλότερον εἶναί φησιν, εἴρηκε δὲ οὕτως·
Εἰς ἐλάτην ἀναβὰς περιμήκετον, ἥ τότ᾽ ἐν Ἴδῃ μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι᾽ ἠέρος αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν.2 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · 2
Ἐπέκεινα δὲ τοῦ αἰθέρος τὸν οὐρανὸν ὑπάρχειν ἀπεφήνατο· λέγει γὰρ τοιώδε·
Ὣς οἳ μὲν μάρναντο, σιδήρειος δ᾽ ὀρυμαγδὸς χάλκεον οὐρανὸν ἷκε δι᾽ αἰθέρος ἀτρυγέτοιο.2 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · 3
Ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὸν Ὄλυμπον ὑπάρχειν κατ᾽ ἐξοχήν τινα καὶ θειότητα· φησὶ γὰρ οὕτως·
Ἠερίη δ᾽ ἀνέβη μέγαν οὐρανὸν Οὔλυμπόν τε.Τὸ γὰρ ἀπωτάτω τῆς γῆς καὶ μήτε τὴν σκιὰν αὐτῆς μήτε τὰς ἀναθυμιάσεις προσδεχόμενον, ὡς ἀειλαμπὲς καὶ ὁλολαμπὲς Ὄλυμπον οἱ παλαιοὶ προσηγόρευσαν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 22
p. 5432 ⟨Plutarch⟩: Aether above air
Homer says that aether is higher than air, expressing it thus:
Climbing a towering fir, which then on Ida had grown tallest, reaching through air into aether.683
2 ⟨Plutarch⟩: Heaven beyond aether
He declared that heaven lies beyond aether, for he says this:
So they fought, and the iron din reached the bronze heaven through the unharvested aether.684
2 ⟨Plutarch⟩: Olympus above all
Olympus lies above all, with a certain eminence and divinity; for he says:
At dawn she ascended great heaven and Olympus.
For the ancients named the region farthest from earth, which receives neither its shadow nor its exhalations, Olympus, as being ever-bright and wholly bright.685
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