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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.16a.2–I.10.16a.4
Ancient Greek
p. 31016a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Πλάτων Ἀρίστωνος τρεῖς ἀρχάς, τὸν θεόν, τὴν ὕλην, τὴν ἰδέαν· ὑφ’ οὗ, ἐξ οὗ, πρὸς ὅ. Ὁ δὲ θεὸς νοῦς ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου, ἡ δὲ ὕλη τὸ ὑποκείμενον γενέσει καὶ φθορᾷ, ἰδέα δὲ οὐσία ἀσώματος ἐν τοῖς νοήμασι καὶ ταῖς φαντασίαις τοῦ θεοῦ.
16a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Ἀριστοτέλης Νικομάχου Σταγειρίτης ἀρχὰς μὲν εἶδος, ὕλην, στέρησιν· στοιχεῖα δὲ τέσσαρα, πέμπτον δέ τι σῶμα τὸ αἰθέριον, ἀμετάβλητον· στοιχεῖα δὲ τῶν γενητῶν κατὰ μὲν τὰς δυνάμεις θερμόν, ψυχρόν, ὑγρόν, ξηρόν, κατὰ δὲ τὰς οὐσίας, ἐν αἷς καὶ περὶ ἃς ὑπάρχουσιν αὗται, τὰ τέσσαρα.
16a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 4
Διόδωρος ἐπίκλην Κρόνος τὰ ἀμερῆ σώματα ἄπειρα, τὰ δ’ αὐτὰ λεγόμενα καὶ ἐλάχιστα· ἄπειρα μὲν κατ’ ἀριθμόν, ὡρισμένα δὲ κατὰ μέγεθος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 31116a ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Plato
Plato, son of Ariston, posits three principles: god, matter, and form; that by which, that out of which, and that with reference to which. God is the mind of the world; matter is what underlies coming-to-be and passing-away; form is an incorporeal being in the thoughts and representations of god.350
16a ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Aristotle
Aristotle of Stagira, son of Nicomachus, makes form, matter, and privation the principles. There are four elements, and a certain fifth body, the aetherial, which is unchanging. The elements of generated things, considered in their powers, are the hot, the cold, the moist, and the dry; considered as the substances in which and about which these powers are found, they are the four elements.351
16a ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Diodorus Cronus
Diodorus, surnamed Cronus, posits infinitely many partless bodies, also called smallest bodies: infinite in number, but bounded in magnitude.352
Socrates
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