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Book I Chapter 11 · I.11.4.1–I.11.4.2
Ancient Greek
p. 3264 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Ἀριστοτέλους. Ἐπειδὴ δ’ ἡ μὲν φύσις κατ’ ἐπίνοιαν ἀρχή τις ἐστὶ κινήσεως καὶ στάσεως, οὔτε δὴ κινούμενον ἡ ὕλη κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον λόγον οὔτε τὸ εἶδος. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἀνείδεος, τὸ δὲ εἶδος ἀεί, καὶ ἡ μὲν οὐ σῶμα, σωματικὴ δέ, τὸ δὲ καθάπαξ ἀσώματον. Οὐ σῶμα δὲ τὴν ὕλην φασίν, οὐ μόνον ὅτι ἐστερῆσθαι δοκεῖ τῶν περὶ σῶμα διαστάσεων, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων ἀπολείπεται κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον λόγον, ἃ τοῖς σώμασιν ὑπάρχει, σχήματος, χρώματος, βαρύτητος, κουφότητος, ὅλως πάσης ποιότητος καὶ ποσότητος.
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Εἰ γὰρ τούτων μετεῖχε, τῶν ποιῶν ⟨ἂν⟩ ἦν καὶ ποσῶν· οὐ μετειληφυῖα δὲ κατὰ λόγον σῶμα μὲν οὐκ ἂν εἴη, σωματικὴ δὲ διὰ τὸ πάσαις ὥσπερ ἐκμαγεῖον ὑποκεῖσθαι ταῖς ποιότησιν· ὃν τρόπον γὰρ τὸ εἶδος τῆς ὕλης ἀφαιρεθὲν ἀσώματον εἶναι τυγχάνει, οὕτως καὶ τὴν ὕλην τοῦ εἴδους χωρισθέντος οὐ σῶμα. Δεῖν γὰρ ἀμφοῖν τῆς συνόδου πρὸς τὴν τοῦ σώματος ὑπόστασιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 11
p. 3274 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Aristotle, part 1
Aristotle. Now since nature, considered conceptually, is a certain principle of motion and rest, neither matter, according to its own definition, nor form is something moved. For matter is without form, whereas form is always form; matter is not a body, though it is corporeal, whereas form is altogether incorporeal.368 They say that matter is not a body, not only because it is held to lack the dimensions belonging to body, but because, according to its own definition, it also lacks many other things that bodies possess: shape, color, heaviness, lightness, and, in general, every quality and quantity.
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For if it shared in these, it ⟨would⟩ be among things having quality and quantity. But, considered in its definition as not sharing in them, it would not be a body; it would be corporeal because it underlies all qualities like an impression-receiving medium. Just as form, abstracted from matter, is incorporeal, so matter too, when form is separated from it, is not a body. For the conjunction of both is needed for a body to subsist.369
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