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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.16c.3–I.10.16c.4
Ancient Greek
p. 31616c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 3
Λέγεσθαι ⟨δὲ⟩ πῦρ τὸ πυρῶδες πᾶν καὶ ἀέρα τὸ ἀερῶδες καὶ ὁμοίως τὰ λοιπά. Τριχῶς δὴ λεγομένου κατὰ Χρύσιππον τοῦ στοιχείου, καθ’ ἕνα μὲν τρόπον τοῦ πυρός, διὰ τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὰ λοιπὰ συνίστασθαι κατὰ μεταβολὴν καὶ εἰς αὐτὸ λαμβάνειν τὴν ἀνάλυσιν· καθ’ ἕτερον δέ, καθὸ λέγεται τὰ τέσσαρα στοιχεῖα, πῦρ, ἀήρ, ὕδωρ, γῆ (ἐπεὶ διὰ τούτων τινὸς ἢ τινῶν ἢ καὶ πάντων τὰ λοιπὰ συνέστηκε, διὰ μὲν τῶν τεττάρων, ὡς τὰ ζῷα καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ γῆς πάντα συγκρίματα, διὰ δυοῖν δέ, ὡς ἡ σελήνη διὰ πυρὸς καὶ ἀέρος συνέστηκε, δι’ ἑνὸς δέ, ὡς ὁ ἥλιος, διὰ πυρὸς γὰρ μόνον, ὁ γὰρ ἥλιος πῦρ ἐστιν εἰλικρινές),
16c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 4
κατὰ τρίτον λόγον λέγεται στοιχεῖον * * εἶναι ὃ πρῶτον συνέστηκεν οὕτως, ὥστε γένεσιν διδόναι ἀφ’ αὑτοῦ ὁδῷ μέχρι τέλους καὶ ἐξ ἐκείνου τὴν ἀνάλυσιν δέχεσθαι εἰς ἑαυτὸ τῇ ὁμοίᾳ ὁδῷ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 31716c ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Chrysippus, part 3
⟨And⟩ everything fiery is called fire, everything airy air, and likewise for the rest. According to Chrysippus, then, “element” is used in three ways. In one way it means fire, because the rest are constituted from it by transformation and undergo dissolution into it. In another way it is used when we speak of the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. For the rest are constituted through one, some, or all of these: through all four, as are animals and all compounds on earth; through two, as the moon is constituted through fire and air; or through one, as the sun is through fire alone, for the sun is pure fire.358
16c ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Chrysippus, part 4
In a third sense “element” is spoken of ... as being that which first stands constituted in such a way as to give rise from itself to a process of generation proceeding along a path to its end, and from that end to receive dissolution back into itself along a like path.359
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