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Book I Chapter 11 · I.11.3.1–I.11.3.2
Ancient Greek
p. 3223 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Οἱ ἀπὸ Θάλεω καὶ Πυθαγόρου, λέγω δὲ τοὺς μέχρι τῶν Στωικῶν καταβεβηκότας σὺν Ἡρακλείτῳ, τρεπτὴν καὶ ἀλλοιωτὴν καὶ μεταβλητὴν καὶ ῥευστὴν ὅλην δι’ ὅλης τὴν ὕλην ἀπεφήναντο.
Οἱ ἀπὸ Δημοκρίτου ἀπαθῆ τὰ πρῶτα, τὴν ἄτομον καὶ τὸ κενόν.
3 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Πλάτων τὴν ὕλην σωματοειδῆ, ἄμορφον, ἀνείδεον, ἀσχημάτιστον, ἄποιον, ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ φύσει, δεξαμενὴν δὲ τῶν εἰδῶν καὶ οἷον τιθήνην καὶ ἐκμαγεῖον καὶ μητέρα γίγνεσθαι.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 11
p. 3233 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: change and impassibility
Those in the lines of Thales and Pythagoras, by which I mean those extending down to the Stoics, together with Heraclitus, declared matter to be capable of transformation, alteration, and change, and fluid throughout its whole extent.
The followers of Democritus held the primary things, the atom and the void, to be unaffected.364
3 ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Plato
Plato held matter to be body-like, without shape or form, unconfigured and without quality, so far as its own nature is concerned; but it becomes a receptacle of forms, and, as it were, a nurse, an impression-receiving medium, and a mother.365
Socrates
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