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Book I Chapter 24 · I.24.5.2–I.24.5.4
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p. 5765 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · Χρυσίππου · 1
Ἀνατολὴν δ᾽ εἶναί φησιν ὁ Χρύσιππος ἐν ταῖς Φυσικαῖς τέχναις ὑπεροχὴν ἄστρου ὑπὲρ γῆς, δύσιν δὲ κρύψιν ἄστρου ὑπὸ γῆν. Γίγνεσθαι δ᾽ ἅμα τῶν αὐτῶν ἀνατολὴν καὶ δύσιν πρὸς ἄλλους τε καὶ ἄλλους.
5 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · Χρυσίππου · 2
Ἐπιτολὴν δὲ ⟨τὴν⟩ ἄστρου ἅμα ἡλίῳ ἀνατολήν, δύσιν δὲ τὴν ἅμα ἡλίῳ δύσιν. Διχῶς γὰρ λέγεσθαι δύσιν, τὴν μὲν κατὰ τὴν ἀνατολήν, τὴν δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἐπιτολήν.
5 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · Χρυσίππου · 3
Κυνὸς δ᾽ ἐπιτολὴν ἅμα ἡλίῳ κυνὸς ἀνατολήν, δύσιν δὲ κυνὸς ἅμα ἡλίῳ κυνὸς ἀπόκρυψιν ὑπὸ γῆν. Τὸν δ᾽ ὅμοιον λόγον εἶναι καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς πλειάδος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 24
p. 5775 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Rising and setting
Chrysippus says in his Treatises on Natural Philosophy that rising is a celestial body’s emergence above earth, and setting its concealment beneath earth. The same bodies rise and set simultaneously for different observers.739
5 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Rising with the sun
By epitolē he means ⟨the⟩ rising of a celestial body together with the sun, and by setting its setting together with the sun. For “setting” is used in two senses: one corresponding to ordinary rising, the other to rising with the sun.740
5 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: The Dog and the Pleiades
The Dog’s epitolē is its rising together with the sun, and the Dog’s setting is its disappearance beneath earth together with the sun. The same account applies to the Pleiades.741
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