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Book I Chapter 26 · I.26.4.3–I.26.4.5
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p. 6284 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Ἀναξαγόρας ἀνωμαλότητα συγκρίματος διὰ τὸ ψυχρομιγὲς ἅμα καὶ γεῶδες, τὰ μὲν ἐχούσης ὑψηλά, τὰ δὲ ταπεινά, τὰ δὲ κοῖλα. Καὶ παραμεμίχθαι τῷ πυροειδεῖ τὸ ζοφῶδες, ὧν τὸ πάθος ὑποφαίνει τὸ σκιερόν· ὅθεν ψευδοφανῆ λέγεσθαι τὸν ἀστέρα.
4 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4
Δημόκριτος ἀποσκίασμά τι τῶν ὑψηλῶν ἐν αὐτῇ μερῶν· ἄγκη γὰρ αὐτὴν ἔχειν καὶ νάπας.
Παρμενίδης διὰ τὸ παραμεμίχθαι τῷ περὶ αὐτὴν πυρώδει τὸ ζοφῶδες, ὅθεν ψευδοφανῆ τὸν ἀστέρα καλεῖ.
4 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 5
Οἱ Στωικοὶ διὰ τὸ ἀερομιγὲς τῆς οὐσίας μὴ εἶναι αὐτῆς ἀκήρατον τὸ σύγκριμα.
Ἀριστοτέλης μὴ εἶναι αὐτῆς ἀκήρατον τὸ σύγκριμα διὰ τὰ πρόσγεια ἀερώματα τοῦ αἰθέρος, ὃν προσαγορεύει σῶμα πέμπτον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 26
p. 6294 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras held that it results from unevenness of composition, because the moon is both mixed with cold and earthy: some of its parts are high, others low, others hollow. The dark substance is mixed with the fire-like substance, and their condition produces the shadowy appearance. Hence the heavenly body is called “deceptive in appearance.”813
4 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Democritus and Parmenides
Democritus held that it is a kind of shadow cast by the high parts of the moon, since it has ravines and valleys.
Parmenides held that it occurs because the dark substance is mixed with the fiery substance in the moon; hence he calls the heavenly body “deceptive in appearance.”
4 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Stoic and Aristotelian mixtures
The Stoics held that its composition is not pure because its substance is mixed with air.
Aristotle held that its composition is not pure because of the earthward formations of air in the aether, which he calls the fifth body.814
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