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Book I Chapter 10 · I.10.16c.5
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p. 31816c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 5
Γεγονέναι δ’ ἔφησε καὶ τοιαύτας ἀποδόσεις περὶ στοιχείου, ὡς ἐστὶ τό τε δι’ αὑτοῦ εὐκινητότατον καὶ ἡ ἀρχὴ ⟨καὶ ὁ σπερματικὸς⟩ λόγος καὶ ἡ ἀΐδιος δύναμις φύσιν ἔχουσα τοιαύτην, ὥστε αὑτήν τε κινεῖν κάτω πρὸς [γῆν] τὴν τροπὴν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τροπῆς ἄνω πάντῃ κύκλῳ, εἰς αὑτήν τε πάντα καταναλίσκουσα καὶ ἀφ’ αὑτῆς πάλιν ἀποκαθιστᾶσα τεταγμένως καὶ ὁδῷ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 10
p. 31916c ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Chrysippus, part 5
He said that such definitions of element had also been given: it is that which moves most readily through itself, and the principle ⟨and seminal⟩ reason, and the eternal power whose nature is such that it moves itself downward toward [earth,] the turning point, and from the turning point upward through the entire circuit, consuming everything into itself and restoring everything from itself again in an ordered course.360
Socrates
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