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Book I Chapter 24 · I.24.2c–I.24.2e
Ancient Greek
p. 5722c ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν σφαιρῶν, ἐφ᾽ ὧν ἕκαστος ἐμβέβηκε.
Καὶ Ἀναξίμανδρος ὑπὸ τῶν κύκλων καὶ τῶν σφαιρῶν, ἐφ᾽ ὧν ἕκαστος βέβηκε, φέρεσθαι.
2d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι ⟨Στωικοὶ⟩ σφαιρικοὺς αὐτούς, Κλεάνθης δὲ κωνοειδεῖς.
2e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Παρμενίδης πρῶτον μὲν τάττει τὸν ἑῷον, τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ νομιζόμενον ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕσπερον, ἐν τῷ αἰθέρι· μεθ᾽ ὃν τὸν ἥλιον, ὑφ᾽ ᾧ τοὺς ἐν τῷ πυρώδει ἀστέρας, ὅπερ οὐρανὸν καλεῖ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 24
p. 5732c ⟨Aëtius⟩: What carries the stars?
Aristotle held that they are carried by the spheres on which each is mounted.
Anaximander likewise held that they are carried by the circles and spheres on which each is set.733
2d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Spheres and cones
The other ⟨Stoics⟩ held that the stars are spherical, but Cleanthes that they are cone-shaped.734
2e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Parmenides’ ordering
Parmenides places first the morning star, which he considers to be the same as the evening star, in aether; after it the sun; and beneath the sun the stars in the fiery region, which he calls heaven.735
Socrates
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