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Book I Chapter 17 · I.17.4.6–I.17.4.7
Ancient Greek
p. 4024 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 6
συνεκφαίνεσθαι γὰρ ἐκ τῆς κράσεως τὴν ἑκάστου τῶν συγκραθέντων ὑγρῶν ποιότητα, οἷον οἴνου, μέλιτος, ὕδατος, ὄξους, τῶν παραπλησίων. Ὅτι δ’ ἐπὶ τοιούτων κράσεων διαμένουσιν αἱ ποιότητες τῶν συγκραθέντων, πρόδηλον ἐκ τοῦ πολλάκις ἐξ ἐπιμηχανήσεως ἀποχωρίζεσθαι ταῦτα ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων. Ἐὰν γοῦν σπόγγον ἠλαιωμένον καθῇ τις εἰς οἶνον ὕδατι κεκραμένον, ἀποχωρίσει τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ οἴνου ἀναδραμόντος τοῦ ὕδατος εἰς τὸν σπόγγον.
4 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 7
Τὴν δὲ σύγχυσιν δύο ⟨ἢ⟩ καὶ πλειόνων ποιοτήτων περὶ τὰ σώματα μεταβολὴν εἰς ἑτέρας διαφερούσης τούτων ποιότητος γένεσιν, ὡς ἐπὶ τῆς συνθέσεως ἔχει τῶν μύρων καὶ τῶν ἰατρικῶν φαρμάκων.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 17
p. 4034 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Qualities retained
For the quality of each of the liquids blended together is manifested along with the others in the blend, as in wine, honey, water, vinegar, and the like.484 That the qualities of the blended constituents persist in such blends is evident from their often being separated from one another by some contrivance. Thus, if someone lowers an oiled sponge into wine blended with water, he will separate the water from the wine, as the water rises into the sponge.485
4 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Fusion
Fusion is the alteration of two ⟨or⟩ more qualities belonging to bodies, producing another quality different from them, as happens in the compounding of perfumes and medicinal preparations.486
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