Diotimos Library · Greek Antiquity Collection · Bilingual Edition
Swipe or use the arrow keys.
Ancient Greek Page · Branch 179 of 879
Book I Chapter 14 · I.14.1b–I.14.1c.2
Ancient Greek
p. 3541b ⟨Ἀετίου· περὶ Ἀριστοτέλους⟩
Καὶ δυνάμει μὲν εἰς ἄπειρον τέμνεσθαι, ἐντελεχείᾳ δὲ μηδαμῶς.
1c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Τῶν δὲ ἁπλῶν σωμάτων εἶναι τὰς ποιότητας ἁπλᾶς· διαιρεῖσθαι δὲ εἰς ἄπειρον τὰ μεγέθη καὶ τὰ μέγεθος ἔχοντα, ταῦτα δὲ καὶ συνεχῆ καλεῖσθαι· μεγέθη δ’ εἶναι μῆκος, πλάτος, βάθος· τὰ δ’ ἔχοντα μέγεθος ἓξ ὑπάρχειν, σῶμα, τόπον, ἐπιφάνειαν, γραμμήν, κίνησιν, χρόνον.
1c ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 2
ἐπιφάνειαν δ’ εἶναι σώματος πέρας δυσὶν ὁριζομένην διαστάσεσι· γραμμὴν δὲ τὸ τῆς ἐπιφανείας πέρας κατὰ μίαν διάστασιν. σῶμα δὴ τοίνυν ἐστὶ ⟨τὸ⟩ τὰς τρεῖς ἔχον διαστάσεις. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ περὶ τὸν τόπον εἰσὶν αὗται, προσθετέον τό τε μετ’ ἀντερείσεως καὶ τὸ μὴ δεχόμενον ἕτερον εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν τόπον [σῶμα]· πληρωτικὸν γὰρ εἶναι τοῦ τόπου τὸ σῶμα, καθάπερ καὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦ σώματος δεκτικόν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 14
p. 3551b ⟨Aëtius: Aristotle⟩
And bodies can be divided without limit potentially, but by no means actually.405
1c ⟨Arius Didymus: Aristotle⟩, part 1
The qualities of simple bodies are simple. Magnitudes and things possessing magnitude are divisible without limit; these are also called continuous. The magnitudes are length, breadth, and depth; and there are six things possessing magnitude: body, place, surface, line, motion, and time.406
1c ⟨Arius Didymus: Aristotle⟩, part 2
A surface is the boundary of a body, defined by two dimensions; a line is the boundary of a surface in one dimension. A body, then, is ⟨that which⟩ has the three dimensions. Since these also apply to place, one must add that a body offers resistance and does not admit another [body] into the same place. For a body fills a place, just as a place receives a body.407
Socrates
Reading Stobaeus, Volume I · Book I Chapter 14 · I.14.1b–I.14.1c.2
Ask about a concept, passage, contradiction, or connection.
Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.About This Reading Edition
Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.
Historical Text and Translation
The Greek follows Curt Wachsmuth’s 1884 Volume I, checked against the supplied scan. Gaps, lost-chapter headings, and uncertain attributions remain visible. Chapter 2 includes a labeled proposed reconstruction. The appendix outlines Books I–IV; the full texts of Books II–IV are outside this volume. Reader pages preserve the companion PDF’s numbering.
About Diotimos Editions
Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation directly from the Greek. Prose and verse retain their distinct forms, with mixed passages preserving their quoted verse. Every passage is paired with its Greek and identified by the edition’s reference number. All 2,117 notes remain linked to their passages, with continuous numbering across the introduction and text.
Rights
Stobaeus’s ancient Greek work and Wachsmuth’s 1884 printing are in the public domain. The independent English translation, introduction, and explanatory notes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions. The complete supplied edition is available as PDF, EPUB, Word, and Markdown. The PDF retains the fixed page locations used by the companion lexicon.