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Book I Chapter 18 · I.18.2.2
Ancient Greek
p. 4122 Ἑρμοῦ · 2
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Ἐναντίαν δὲ ἔχειν φύσιν ἀνάγκη τὸ ἐν ᾧ κινεῖται τῇ τοῦ κινουμένου;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Καὶ πάνυ.
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Μέγας οὖν οὗτος ⟨ὁ⟩ κόσμος, οὗ μεῖζον οὐκ ἔστι σῶμα;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Ὡμολόγηται.
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Καὶ στιβαρός; πεπλήρωται γὰρ ἄλλων σωμάτων μεγάλων πολλῶν, μᾶλλον δὲ πάντων ὅσα ἐστὶ σώματα;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Οὕτως ἔχει.
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Σῶμα δὲ ὁ κόσμος;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Σῶμα.
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Καὶ κινούμενον;
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Μάλιστα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 18
p. 4132 Hermes: The world as body
⟨Hermes⟩ And must that in which something moves have a nature opposite to the nature of the moving thing?
⟨Asclepius⟩ Most certainly.
⟨Hermes⟩ This world, then, is great, since no body is greater than it?
⟨Asclepius⟩ That is agreed.
⟨Hermes⟩ And solidly packed? For it is filled with many other great bodies, or rather with all the bodies there are?
⟨Asclepius⟩ That is so.
⟨Hermes⟩ And the world is a body?
⟨Asclepius⟩ A body.
⟨Hermes⟩ And one that moves?
⟨Asclepius⟩ Certainly.502
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