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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.42.3–I.8.42.4
Ancient Greek
p. 25242 Χρυσίππου
Ὁ δὲ Χρύσιππος χρόνον εἶναι κινήσεως διάστημα, καθ’ ὃ ποτὲ λέγεται μέτρον τάχους τε καὶ βραδύτητος· ἢ τὸ παρακολουθοῦν διάστημα τῇ τοῦ κόσμου κινήσει, καὶ κατὰ μὲν τὸν χρόνον κινεῖσθαί τε ἕκαστα καὶ εἶναι· εἰ μὴ ἄρα διττὸς λέγεται ὁ χρόνος, καθάπερ ἥ τε γῆ καὶ ἡ θάλαττα καὶ τὸ κενόν, τά τε ὅλα καὶ τὰ μέρη τὰ αὐτῶν. Ὥσπερ δὲ τὸ κενὸν πᾶν ἄπειρον εἶναι πάντῃ καὶ τὸν χρόνον πάντα ἄπειρον εἶναι ἐφ’ ἑκάτερα· καὶ γὰρ τὸν παρεληλυθότα καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα ἄπειρον εἶναι.
42 Χρυσίππου· συνέχεια
Ἐμφανέστατα δὲ τοῦτο λέγει, ὅτι οὐθεὶς ὅλως ἐνίσταται χρόνος. Ἐπεὶ γὰρ εἰς ἄπειρον ἡ τομὴ τῶν συνεχόντων ἐστί, κατὰ τὴν διαίρεσιν ταύτην καὶ πᾶς χρόνος εἰς ἄπειρον ἔχει τὴν τομήν· ὥστε μηθένα κατ’ ἀπαρτισμὸν ἐνεστάναι χρόνον, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πλάτος λέγεσθαι. Μόνον δ’ ὑπάρχειν φησὶ τὸν ἐνεστῶτα, τὸν δὲ παρῳχημένον καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα ὑφεστάναι μέν, ὑπάρχειν δὲ οὐδαμῶς, εἰ μὴ ὡς καὶ κατηγορήματα ὑπάρχειν λέγεται μόνα τὰ συμβεβηκότα, οἷον τὸ περιπατεῖν ὑπάρχει μοι ὅτε περιπατῶ, ὅτε δὲ κατακέκλιμαι ἢ κάθημαι οὐχ ὑπάρχει …
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 25342 Chrysippus
Chrysippus holds that time is an interval of motion, in which respect it is sometimes called a measure of speed and slowness; or the interval accompanying the universe’s motion. Each thing moves and exists in accordance with time, unless, indeed, “time” is used in two senses, as are earth, sea, and void, for both their wholes and their parts. Just as void as a whole is infinite in every direction, so time as a whole is infinite in both directions: both past and future time are infinite.285
42 Chrysippus, continued
He states most explicitly that no time at all is present. For since continuous things can be divided without limit, every time likewise admits division without limit. Thus no time is present in the strict sense; it is called present only in an extended sense. Yet he says that only present time has actuality, while past and future time subsist but have no actuality at all. The qualification is like the statement that only predicates that actually apply have actuality: for example, walking is actual for me when I walk, but when I lie down or sit it is not actual …286
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