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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.11b.2–I.10.12.1
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p. 29611b ⟨Πλουτάρχου⟩ · βʹ
Λέγει γὰρ οὕτως·
Ἄλλοτε μὲν φιλότητι συνερχόμεν’ εἰς ἓν ἅπαντα, ἄλλοτε δ’ αὖ δίχ’ ἕκαστα φορεύμενα νείκεος ἔχθει.Ὅμηρος δὲ τὴν φιλίαν καὶ τὸ νεῖκος τῶν τοῦ παντὸς μερῶν ἐν τούτοις αἰνίσσεται, ἐν οἷς φησιν ἡ Ἥρα·
Εἶμι γὰρ ὀψομένη πολυφόρβου πείρατα γαίης, ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν καὶ μητέρα Τηθύν· τοὺς εἶμ’ ὀψομένη καί σφ’ ἄκριτα νείκεα λύσω.12 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος ἀρχὴν τῶν ὄντων ἀπεφήνατο τὸ ὕδωρ, ἐξ ὕδατος γάρ φησι πάντα εἶναι καὶ εἰς ὕδωρ πάντα ἀναλύεσθαι. Στοχάζεται δὲ πρῶτον ἐκ τούτου, ὅτι πάντων τῶν ζῴων ἡ γονὴ ἀρχή ἐστιν, ὑγρὰ οὖσα. οὕτως εἰκὸς καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐξ ὑγροῦ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔχειν. Δεύτερον, ⟨ὅτι⟩ πάντα φυτὰ ὑγρῷ τρέφεται καὶ καρποφορεῖ, ἀμοιροῦντα δὲ ξηραίνεται. Τρίτον, ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ πῦρ τὸ τοῦ ἡλίου καὶ τῶν ἄστρων ταῖς τῶν ὑδάτων ἀναθυμιάσεσι τρέφεται καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ κόσμος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 29711b ⟨Plutarch⟩, part 2
For he says:
At one time all come together into one through Love, at another each is borne apart by Strife’s hatred.
Homer alludes to the friendship and strife of the universe’s parts in these lines, in which Hera says:333
For I go to visit the limits of earth that feeds so many, and Oceanus, source of the gods, and mother Tethys; I go to visit them and settle their unresolved quarrels.
12 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Thales
Thales of Miletus declared water to be the principle of existing things: he says that everything comes from water and everything is dissolved into water. His first inference rests on this: the origin of all animals is their generative fluid, which is moist. It is accordingly reasonable that all things too should have their origin in moisture. Second, ⟨that⟩ all plants are nourished and bear fruit through moisture, but dry up when deprived of it. Third, that even the fire of the sun and stars is nourished by exhalations from waters, as is the world itself.334
Socrates
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