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Book I Chapter 25 · I.25.6–I.25.7.1
Ancient Greek
p. 6006 Εὐριπίδης
Εὐριπίδης πῦρ εἶναι τὸν ἥλιον. Λέγει γοῦν ἐν Φοινίσσαις
Ἥλιε θοαῖς ἵπποισιν εἱλίσσων φλόγα,ἐν δὲ Φαέθοντι
Θερμὴ δ᾽ ἄνακτος φλὸξ ὑπερτέλλουσα γῆς.7 ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · 1
Ὅμηρος μὴ εἶναι πῦρ τὸν ἥλιον, ἀλλὰ φῶς καθαρώτατον. Δείκνυσι δὲ τοῦτο σαφῶς διὰ τῶν ἐπῶν· λέγει γὰρ οὕτως·
Σείων Πηλιάδα μελίην κατὰ δεξιὸν ὦμον δεινήν, ἀμφὶ δὲ χαλκὸς ἐλάμπετο εἴκελος αὐγῇ ἢ πυρὸς αἰθομένου ἢ ἠελίου ἀνιόντος.Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 25
p. 6016 Euripides: The sun’s flame
Euripides held that the sun is fire. At any rate, he says in The Phoenician Women:772
Sun, wheeling your flame with swift horses,
and in Phaethon:773
And the lord’s hot flame rising above the earth.
7 ⟨Plutarch⟩: Homer on light
Homer held that the sun is the purest light, rather than fire. He makes this clear through his verses, for he says:774
Brandishing the fearsome Pelian ash by his right shoulder, while the bronze gleamed all around, like the radiance of either blazing fire or the rising sun.775
Socrates
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