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Book I Chapter 8 · I.8.45.5–I.8.45.6
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p. 26645 Πλάτωνος, Τιμαίου· συνέχεια
Ἐξ οὖν λόγου καὶ διανοίας θεοῦ τοιαύτης πρὸς χρόνου γένεσιν, ἵνα γενηθῇ χρόνος, ἥλιος καὶ σελήνη καὶ πέντε ἄλλα ἔχοντα ἐπίκλην ἄστρα πλανητὰ εἰς διορισμὸν καὶ φυλακὴν ἀριθμῶν χρόνου γέγονε. Σώματα δὲ αὐτῶν ἑκάστων ποιήσας ὁ θεὸς ἔθηκεν εἰς τὰς περιφοράς, ἃς ἡ θατέρου περίοδος ᾔειν, ἑπτὰ οὔσας, ὄντα ἑπτά· σελήνην μὲν εἰς τὸν περὶ γῆν πρῶτον, ἥλιον δ’ εἰς τὸν δεύτερον ὑπὲρ γῆς, ἑωσφόρον δὲ καὶ τὸν ἱερὸν Ἑρμοῦ λεγόμενον εἰς τὸν τάχει μὲν ἰσόδρομον ἡλίῳ κύκλον ἰόντας, τὴν δ’ ἐναντίαν εἰληχότας αὐτῷ δύναμιν· ὅθεν καταλαμβάνουσί τε καὶ καταλαμβάνονται κατὰ ταὐτὰ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἥλιός τε καὶ ὁ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ ἑωσφόρος. Τὰ δ’ ἄλλα οἷ δὴ καὶ δι’ ἃς αἰτίας ἱδρύσατο, εἴ τις ἐπεξίοι πάσας, ὁ λόγος πάρεργος ὢν πλέον ἂν ἔργον ὧν ἕνεκα λέγεται παράσχοι.
45 Πλάτωνος, Τιμαίου· συνέχεια
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Ἔστι δ’ ὅμως οὐδὲν ἧττον κατανοῆσαι δυνατόν, ὡς ὅ γε τέλειος ἀριθμὸς χρόνου τὸν τέλειον ἐνιαυτὸν πληροῖ τότε, ὅταν ἁπασῶν τῶν ὀκτὼ περιόδων τὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα συμπερανθέντα τάχη σχῇ κεφαλὴν τῷ τοῦ ταὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμοίως ἰόντος ἀναμετρηθέντα κύκλῳ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 8
p. 26745 Plato, Timaeus, continued
From this reasoning and intention of the god concerning the creation of time, the sun, moon, and five other stars called wanderers came into being so that time might come to be, and so that its numbers could be distinguished and preserved. After making a body for each, the god set these seven bodies in the seven circuits traversed by the revolution of the Different: the moon in the first around the earth, the sun in the second above the earth, and the morning star and the star called sacred to Hermes in the circle that runs at the same speed as the sun, though they were allotted a power contrary to its own. Thus the sun, Hermes’ star, and the morning star alike overtake and are overtaken by one another.298 As for where he placed the others and all the reasons for doing so, an account of every detail, though incidental, would make more work than the subject for whose sake it is given.
45 Plato, Timaeus, continued
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Nevertheless, it is still possible to understand that the complete number of time fulfills the complete year when the relative speeds of all eight revolutions, having completed their courses together, reach their culmination, measured by the circle of the Same, which moves uniformly.299
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