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Book I Chapter 25 · I.25.5.2–I.25.5.3
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p. 5985 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου ἐπιτομῆς⟩ · 2
τὸν δὲ ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην δύο φορὰς φέρεσθαι, τὴν μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ κόσμου ἀπ᾽ ἀνατολῆς ἐπ᾽ ἀνατολήν, τὴν δὲ ἐναντίαν τῷ κόσμῳ ζῴδιον ἐκ ζῳδίου μεταβαίνοντας. Τὰς δ᾽ ἐκλείψεις τούτων γίγνεσθαι διαφόρως, ἡλίου μὲν περὶ τὰς συνόδους, σελήνης δὲ περὶ τὰς πανσελήνους. Γίνεσθαι δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων τὰς ἐκλείψεις καὶ μείζους καὶ ἐλάττους.
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Χρυσίππου. Χρύσιππος τὸν ἥλιον εἶναι τὸ ἀθροισθὲν ἔξαμμα νοερὸν ἐκ τοῦ τῆς θαλάσσης ἀναθυμιάματος, σφαιροειδῆ δὲ εἶναι τῷ σχήματι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 25
p. 5995 Zeno: Two motions and eclipses
The sun and moon undergo two motions: one in which the world carries them from rising to rising, and another contrary to the world’s motion, as they pass from one zodiacal sign into another.769 Their eclipses occur differently: the sun’s at conjunctions, the moon’s at full moons. In both cases the eclipses may be greater or smaller.770
5 Chrysippus
Chrysippus’ view. Chrysippus held that the sun is an intelligent blaze gathered together from the sea’s exhalation, and that it is spherical in shape.771
Socrates
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