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Book I Chapter 18 · I.18.4d.3–I.18.4d.4
Ancient Greek
p. 4264d ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 3
Τὸ μὲν οὖν κενὸν ἄπειρον εἶναι λέγεσθαι· τὸ γὰρ ἐκτὸς τοῦ κόσμου τοιοῦτ’ εἶναι· τὸν δὲ τόπον πεπερασμένον διὰ τὸ μηδὲν σῶμα ἄπειρον εἶναι. Καθάπερ δὲ τὸ σωματικὸν πεπερασμένον εἶναι, οὕτως τὸ ἀσώματον ἄπειρον, ὅ τε γὰρ χρόνος ἄπειρος καὶ τὸ κενόν.
4d ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 4
Ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ μηδὲν οὐδέν ἐστι πέρας, οὕτως οὐδὲ τοῦ μηδενός, οἷόν ἐστι τὸ κενόν. Κατὰ γὰρ τὴν αὑτοῦ ὑπόστασιν ἄπειρόν ἐστι· περατοῦται δ’ αὖ τοῦτο ἐκπληρούμενον· τοῦ δὲ πληροῦντος ἀρθέντος οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ νοῆσαι πέρας.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 18
p. 4274d Chrysippus: Limits and infinity
Void, then, is said to be infinite, for what is outside the world is of that kind; but place is finite, because no body is infinite. Just as the corporeal is finite, so the incorporeal is infinite, for both time and void are infinite.521
4d Chrysippus: The absence of a boundary
For just as nothingness is no boundary, so neither is there a boundary of nothingness, such as void is. In its own subsistence it is infinite; yet it becomes bounded when it is filled. Once what fills it is removed, no boundary of it can be conceived.522
Socrates
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