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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.14.1–I.10.14.2
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p. 30614 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Ἡράκλειτος καὶ Ἵππασος ἀρχὴν τῶν ἁπάντων τὸ πῦρ. Πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ τὸ παχυμερέστερον αὐτοῦ εἰς αὑτὸ συστελλόμενον ⟨γῆ⟩ γίγνεται, ἔπειτα ἀναχαλωμένην τὴν γῆν ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς χύσει ὕδωρ ἀποτελεῖσθαι, ἀναθυμιώμενον δὲ ἀέρα γίγνεσθαι. Πάλιν δὲ τὸν κόσμον καὶ τὰ σώματα πάντα ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸς ἀναλύεσθαι ἐν τῇ ἐκπυρώσει.
14 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Μητρόδωρος Θεοκρίτου Χῖος τὰ ἀδιαίρετα καὶ τὸ κενόν.
Διογένης δὲ ὁ Ἀπολλωνιάτης ἀέρα ἄπειρον.
Ζήνων Μνασέου Κιτιεὺς ἀρχὰς τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὴν ὕλην, στοιχεῖα δὲ τέσσαρα.
Λεύκιππος Μιλήσιος ἀρχὰς καὶ στοιχεῖα τὸ πλῆρες καὶ τὸ κενόν.
Δημόκριτος τὰ ναστὰ καὶ κενόν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 30714 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Heraclitus and Hippasus
Heraclitus and Hippasus make fire the principle of everything. First, its coarser part contracts into itself and becomes ⟨earth⟩; then earth, loosened by fire, melts to form water, and water, exhaled as vapor, becomes air. In turn, the world and all bodies are dissolved by fire in the conflagration.345
14 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Further accounts of the principles
Metrodorus of Chios, son of Theocritus, posits the indivisibles and the void.
Diogenes of Apollonia, unlimited air.
Zeno of Citium, son of Mnaseas, makes god and matter the principles, and the elements four.
Leucippus of Miletus makes the full and the void the principles and elements.
Democritus posits compact bodies and void.346
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