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Book I Chapter 18 · I.18.3.5–I.18.4b.1
Ancient Greek
p. 4203 Ἐν ταὐτῷ · 5
⟨ἈΣΚ.⟩ Ὁ οὖν θεὸς τί ἐστιν;
⟨ἙΡΜ.⟩ Ὁ μηδὲ ἓν τούτων ὑπάρχων, ὢν δὲ καὶ τοῦ εἶναι τούτοις αἴτιος καὶ πᾶσι καὶ ἑνὶ ἑκάστῳ τῶν ὄντων πάντων.
4a ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἐπίκουρος ὀνόμασι [πᾶσιν] παραλλάττειν κενόν, τόπον, χώραν.
4b ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Οἱ ⟨ἀπὸ⟩ Πυθαγόρου ἐκτὸς εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου κενόν, εἰς ὃ ἀναπνεῖ ὁ κόσμος καὶ ἐξ οὗ.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 18
p. 4213 Hermes: God as cause
⟨Asclepius⟩ What, then, is God?
⟨Hermes⟩ He who is none of these things, yet is the cause of their being, for all of them and for each and every existing thing.511
4a ⟨Aëtius⟩: Epicurus
Epicurus held that void, place, and space differ in their names [all of them].512
4b ⟨Aëtius⟩: The Pythagoreans
Those ⟨of the school⟩ of Pythagoras held that there is void outside the world, into which the world breathes and from which it draws breath.513
Socrates
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