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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.42c.2–I.8.43
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p. 25642c ⟨Ἀετίου⟩· συνέχεια
Γίγνεσθαι δὲ τὸν λεγόμενον μέγαν ἐνιαυτόν, ὅταν ἐπὶ τοὺς ⟨αὐτοὺς⟩ ἀφ’ ὧν ἤρξαντο τῆς κινήσεως ἀφίκωνται τόπους. Τὸν δέ γε μέγαν ἐνιαυτὸν οἱ μὲν ἐν τῇ ὀκταετηρίδι τίθενται, οἱ δὲ ἐν τῇ ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίδι, οἱ δ’ ἐν τοῖς τετραπλασίοις ἔτεσιν, οἱ δ’ ἐν τοῖς ἑξήκοντα ⟨ἑνὸς δέουσιν⟩, ἐν οἷς Οἰνοπίδης καὶ Πυθαγόρας· οἱ δ’ ἐν τῇ λεγομένῃ κεφαλῇ τοῦ Κρόνου, αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ πλανητῶν ἐπὶ ταύτῃ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ἐξ ἄρκτου φορᾶς ἐπάνοδος. Ἡράκλειτος ἐκ μυρίων ὀκτακισχιλίων ἐνιαυτῶν ἡλιακῶν. Διογένης ὁ Στωικὸς ἐκ πέντε καὶ ἑξήκοντα καὶ τριακοσίων ἐνιαυτῶν τοσούτων, ὅσος ἦν ὁ καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον ἐνιαυτός.
43 Σκυθίνου, Περὶ φύσεως
Χρόνος ἐστὶν ὕστατον καὶ πρῶτον πάντων καὶ ἔχει ἐν ἑαυτῷ πάντα καὶ ἐστὶν εἷς ἀεί· καὶ οὐκ εἶσιν ὁ παροιχόμενος ἐκ τοῦ ἐόντος αὐτῷ ἐναντίην ὁδὸν παρεωνιατῶν. Τὸ γὰρ αὔριον ἡ μὲν τῷ ἔργῳ χθὲς ἔσται, τὸ δὲ χθὲς αὔριον ⟨ἦν⟩.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 25742c ⟨Aëtius⟩, continued: the great year
The so-called great year occurs when the heavenly bodies return to the ⟨same⟩ positions from which they began their motion. Some place the great year in an eight-year cycle, others in a nineteen-year cycle, others in four times that number of years, and others in sixty ⟨less one⟩, including Oenopides and Pythagoras. Others place it in the so-called “head of Saturn”: this is the return of the seven planets, on that day, in their motion from the north.290 Heraclitus makes it eighteen thousand solar years. Diogenes the Stoic makes it three hundred and sixty-five years, each as long as the year according to Heraclitus.291
43 Scythinus, On Nature
Time is the last and first of all things, contains all things within itself, and is always one. Time that has passed does not depart from what is, along a road opposite to itself [pareōniatōn: unresolved]. For tomorrow will in fact be yesterday, and yesterday ⟨was⟩ tomorrow.292
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