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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.12.7–I.10.12.10
Ancient Greek
p. 30212 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 7
Ἀρχέλαος ἀέρα ἄπειρον καὶ τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν πυκνότητα καὶ μάνωσιν. τούτων δὲ τὸ μὲν εἶναι πῦρ, τὸ δ’ ὕδωρ.
Οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐφεξῆς ἀλλήλοις ταῖς διαδοχαῖς γενόμενοι τὴν Ἰωνικὴν ἐκπληροῦσι φιλοσοφίαν, οὕτω προσαγορευθεῖσαν, διότι Μιλήσιος αὐτῆς κατῆρξεν ἀνήρ, ὁ Θαλῆς ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Ἰώνων μητροπόλεως.
12 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 8
Φιλόλαος ὁ Πυθαγόρειος τὸ πέρας καὶ τὸ ἄπειρον.
12 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 9
Στράτων στοιχεῖα ⟨θερμὸν⟩ καὶ ψυχρόν.
12 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 10
Πυθαγόρας Μνησάρχου Σάμιος, πρῶτος φιλοσοφίαν τούτῳ τῷ ῥήματι προσαγορεύσας, ἀρχὰς τοὺς ἀριθμοὺς καὶ τὰς συμμετρίας τὰς ἐν τούτοις, ἅς τινας ἁρμονίας καλεῖ· τὰ ⟨δ’⟩ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων σύνθετα στοιχεῖα· πάλιν δὲ τὴν μονάδα καὶ τὴν ἀόριστον δυάδα ἐν ταῖς ἀρχαῖς. Σπεύδει δὲ αὐτῷ τῶν ἀρχῶν ἡ μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν αἴτιον καὶ εἰδικόν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ νοῦς, ὁ θεός· ἡ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ παθητικόν τε καὶ ὑλικόν, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὁ ὁρατὸς κόσμος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 30312 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Archelaus and the Ionian succession
Archelaus posits unlimited air and its density and rarefaction: one of these is fire, the other water.339
These men, following one another in succession, make up Ionian philosophy, so called because its founder was a man of Miletus: Thales, from the Ionians’ mother-city.
12 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Philolaus
Philolaus the Pythagorean posits limit and the unlimited.340
12 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Strato
Strato makes ⟨the hot⟩ and the cold the elements.
12 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Pythagoras: principles
Pythagoras of Samos, son of Mnesarchus, who first called philosophy by that name, makes numbers and the proportions among them, which he calls harmonies, the principles; ⟨and⟩ the compounds formed from both, the elements. Again, he places the monad and the indefinite dyad among the principles. In his account, one principle tends toward the productive and formal cause, which is mind, or god; the other toward what is receptive and material, which is the visible world.341
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