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Book I Chapter 14 · I.14.1g–I.14.1i
Ancient Greek
p. 3601g ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ὁ δ’ αὐτὸς ἔλεγε περὶ τἀμερῆ ἵστασθαι τὴν τομήν.
1h ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Στράτων μὲν προσεῖναι τοῖς σώμασι φυσικὸν βάρος, τὰ δὲ κουφότερα τοῖς βαρυτέροις ἐπιπολάζειν, οἷον ἐκπυρηνιζόμενα.
1i ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Οἱ ἀπὸ Θάλεω καὶ Πυθαγόρου παθητὰ ⟨τὰ⟩ σώματα καὶ τμητὰ εἰς ἄπειρον, καὶ πάντα τὰ συνεχῆ, γραμμήν, ἐπιφάνειαν, στερεὸν σῶμα, τόπον, χρόνον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 14
p. 3611g ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Democritus
The same thinker said that division stops at things without parts.415
1h ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Strato
Strato held that bodies possess natural weight, but that the lighter float above the heavier, as though squeezed out like fruit stones.416
1i ⟨Aëtius, Opinions⟩: Thales and Pythagoras
The followers of Thales and Pythagoras held ⟨the⟩ bodies to be capable of being affected and divisible without limit, and likewise all continuous things: line, surface, solid body, place, and time.417
Socrates
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