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Book I Chapter 5 · I.5.15c–I.5.15d
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p. 17815 ⟨Ἀετίου Δόξαι⟩ (γʹ)
Χρύσιππος δύναμιν πνευματικὴν τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς εἱμαρμένης, τάξει τοῦ παντὸς διοικητικήν. Τοῦτο μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ Περὶ κόσμου, ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ Περὶ ὅρων καὶ ἐν τοῖς Περὶ τῆς εἱμαρμένης καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις σποράδην πολυτρόπως ἀποφαίνεται λέγων· Εἱμαρμένη ἐστὶν ὁ τοῦ κόσμου λόγος, ἢ λόγος τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ προνοίᾳ διοικουμένων· ἢ λόγος, καθ’ ὃν τὰ μὲν γεγονότα γέγονε, τὰ δὲ γινόμενα γίνεται, τὰ δὲ γενησόμενα γενήσεται. Μεταλαμβάνει δ’ ἀντὶ τοῦ λόγου τὴν ἀλήθειαν, τὴν αἰτίαν, τὴν φύσιν, τὴν ἀνάγκην, προστιθεὶς καὶ ἑτέρας ὀνομασίας, ὡς ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας τασσομένας καθ’ ἑτέρας καὶ ἑτέρας ἐπιβολάς.
15 ⟨Ἀετίου Δόξαι⟩ (δʹ)
Μοίρας δὲ καλεῖσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ κατ’ αὐτὰς διαμερισμοῦ, Κλωθὼ καὶ Λάχεσιν καὶ Ἄτροπον. Λάχεσιν μέν, ὅτι ὃν κλῆρον λελόγχασιν ἕκαστοι κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον ἀπονέμεται· Ἄτροπον δέ, ὅτι ἀμετάτρεπτος καὶ ἀμετάβλητός ἐστιν ὁ καθ’ ἕκαστα διορισμὸς ἐξ ἀϊδίων χρόνων· Κλωθὼ δέ, ὅτι ἡ κατὰ τὴν εἱμαρμένην διανέμησις καὶ τὰ γεννώμενα τοῖς κλωθομένοις παραπλησίως διεξέρχεται, κατὰ τὴν ἐτυμολογικὴν ἐξήγησιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἅμα καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων συμπαρισταμένων εὐχρήστως.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 5
p. 17915 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩ (3)
Chrysippus holds that the substance of fate is a power of pneuma that governs the universe in order. He says this in the second book of On the Cosmos. In the second book of On Definitions, in his writings On Fate, and here and there in other works, he states it in various ways: fate is the rational principle of the cosmos, or the rational principle of what is governed by providence within the cosmos, or the rational principle according to which past events have happened, present events happen, and future events will happen.196
In place of “rational principle” he uses “truth,” “cause,” “nature,” and “necessity,” adding other names too, as terms applied to the same substance under different aspects.
15 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩ (4)
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos are called Moirai, “Fates,” from the apportionment made in accordance with them. Lachesis is so named because the lot allotted to each is assigned according to justice. Atropos is so named because the determination of each particular thing, established from everlasting ages, is unalterable and unchangeable. Clotho is so named because distribution according to fate, and the things that come to be, proceed in a manner like things being spun. Through this etymological explanation, the names and the realities are helpfully presented together.197
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