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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.9.1
Ancient Greek
p. 10149.1 · Ἐν ταὐτῷ
Ἐν ταὐτῷ.
Ἆρ᾽ οὖν τῷ συντεθέντι τε καὶ συνθέτῳ ὄντι φύσει προσήκει τοῦτο πάσχειν, διαιρεθῆναι ταύτῃ ᾗπερ συνετέθη· εἰ δέ τι τυγχάνει ὂν ἀσύνθετον, τούτῳ μόνῳ προσήκει μὴ πάσχειν ταῦτα, εἴπερ τῳ ἄλλῳ; - Δοκεῖ μοι, ἔφη, οὕτως ἔχειν, ὁ Κέβης. - Οὐκοῦν ἅπερ ἀεὶ κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχει, ταῦτα μάλιστα εἰκὸς εἶναι τὰ ἀσύνθετα, τὰ δὲ ἄλλοτ᾽ ἄλλως καὶ μηδέποτε κατὰ ⟨ταὐτά⟩, ταῦτα ⟨δὲ⟩ σύνθετα; - Ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ οὕτως. . . . . .
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 10159.1 · Plato: what can be dissolved?
In the same work.
“Is it not naturally fitting for what has been put together and is composite to undergo this: to be divided in the way in which it was put together? If something is uncompounded, does it not belong to that alone, if to anything, to escape these changes?”
“That seems to me to be so,” said Cebes.
“Then the things that always remain the same and in the same condition are most likely to be uncompounded; ⟨but⟩ those that vary from one time to another and never remain ⟨the same⟩ are composite?”
“That is how it seems to me.”
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Socrates
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