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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.40d–I.8.40e
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p. 24640d ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩
Οἱ Ἀριστοτελικοὶ τὸν χρόνον ἀριθμὸν τῶν κατὰ τὸ νῦν ἀφοριζομένων κινήσεων, τὸ δὲ νῦν εἶναι μονάδα στάσεως ἐν κινήσει, κίνησιν δ’ οὐκ εἶναι τὸν χρόνον, οὐ μὴν ⟨ἄνευ⟩ κινήσεως· λέγεσθαι γὰρ κίνησιν βραδεῖαν καὶ ταχεῖαν, οὐκέτι δὲ χρόνον, ἀλλὰ πολὺν καὶ ὀλίγον. Ἔτι τὸ μὲν πλεῖον καὶ τοὔλαττον ἀριθμῷ κρίνεσθαι, χρόνῳ δὲ τὴν πλείω καὶ ἐλάττω κίνησιν. Οὐκ ἄρα κίνησις ὁ χρόνος, οὐ μὴν κινήσεως κεχωρισμένος, ἀριθμὸν γὰρ εἶναι κινήσεως συνεχῆ κατὰ τὸ πρότερον καὶ ὕστερον.
40e ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩· Ζήνωνος
Ζήνων ἔφησε χρόνον εἶναι κινήσεως διάστημα, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ μέτρον καὶ κριτήριον τάχους τε καὶ βραδύτητος, ὅπως ἔχει ⟨ἕκαστα⟩. Κατὰ τοῦτον δὲ γίνεσθαι τὰ γινόμενα καὶ τὰ περαινόμενα ἅπαντα καὶ τὰ ὄντα εἶναι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 24740d ⟨Arius Didymus⟩
The Aristotelians call time the number of motions delimited by the now, and the now a unit of rest within motion. Time is not motion, yet neither is it ⟨without⟩ motion. For motion is called slow or swift, whereas time is called long or short instead. Further, more and less are judged by number, while greater and lesser motion are judged by time. Time, then, is not motion, yet it is not separate from motion: it is a continuous number of motion in respect of before and after.279
40e ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Zeno
Zeno said that time is an interval of motion, and that this is both a measure and a criterion of speed and slowness, according to how ⟨each thing⟩ stands. In accordance with it, everything that comes to be or reaches completion does so, and things that exist have their being.280
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