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Book I Chapter 6 · I.6.19.2
Ancient Greek
p. 21219 Εὐρύσω· συνέχεια
Ἐπεὶ γὰρ δύο φύσιες ἐν τῷ ὅλῳ τῷδε καὶ τῷ παντὶ ἐνυπάρχοντι ἐναντίαι ἀλλάλαις καὶ ταυτᾶν ἁ μὲν ἐντὶ ῥητὰ καὶ τεταγμένα καὶ λόγον ἔχουσα ποτὶ πάντα, ἁ δ’ ἄρρητος καὶ ἄτακτος καὶ ἄλογος καὶ οὐδεμίαν σύνταξιν ἔχουσα, αὐταυτόθεν φανερόν, ὅτι τὸ μὲν ἀπὸ τύχας καὶ τῶ αὐτομάτω γινόμενον γίνεται ἐμπεσούσας τᾶς ἀλόγω καὶ ἀτάκτω φύσιος ἐς τὰ πράγματα, πάντα δὲ τὰ σύστοιχα ταῖς καθόλου φύσεσιν ἀεὶ κατὰ τὸ βέλτιον καὶ τὸ χεῖρον ἀντιδιαιρέονται [τὰ] πράγματα, τὰ μὲν ὡς ἀγαθοποιοῦ τινος φύσιος καὶ βασιλικᾶς ἐπικρατευούσας, τὰ δ’ ὡς κακοποιοῦ καὶ τυραννικᾶς.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 6
p. 21319 Eurysus, continued
For there are two natures in this whole universe, opposed to one another. One is expressible, ordered, and rationally related to everything; the other is inexpressible, disordered, irrational, and without any arrangement. It is therefore immediately clear that what happens by fortune and spontaneous occurrence happens when the irrational and disorderly nature breaks into events. All [the] events that correspond to these universal natures are always divided into opposing classes, according to better and worse: some as though a beneficent, kingly nature were in control, others as though a maleficent, tyrannical nature were.235
Socrates
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