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Book I Chapter 19 · I.19.5.3–I.19.7
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p. 4465 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 3
Ὥσπερ δὲ παντὸς σώματος ἐλέγομεν μέρος εἶναι σῶμα καὶ πάσης ἐπιφανείας ἐπιφάνειαν καὶ πάσης γραμμῆς γραμμὴν καὶ παντὸς τόπου τόπον καὶ παντὸς χρόνου χρόνον, οὕτως καὶ πάσης κινήσεως κίνησιν εἶναι ῥητέον καὶ πάσης σχέσεως σχέσιν κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀναλογίαν.
6 Πλάτωνος ἐκ τῶν Παρμενίδου
Ὅτι κινούμενόν γε ἢ φέροιτο ἢ ἀλλοιοῖτο ἄν, αὗται γὰρ μόναι κινήσεις;
Ναί.
7 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ Τιμαίου
Ὥστε τὸ μὲν ὅλον κινεῖσθαι ζῷον, ἀτάκτως μὴν ὅπῃ τύχοι προϊέναι καὶ ἀλόγως, τὰς ἓξ ἁπάσας κινήσεις ἔχον· εἴς τε γὰρ τὸ πρόσθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν καὶ πάλιν εἰς δεξιὰ καὶ ἀριστερά, κάτω τε καὶ ἄνω καὶ πάντῃ κατὰ τοὺς ἓξ τόπους πλανώμενα.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 19
p. 4475 Apollodorus: Parts of motions
Just as we said that a part of every body is a body, of every surface a surface, of every line a line, of every place a place, and of every time a time, so we must say, by the same analogy, that a part of every motion is a motion and of every disposition a disposition.550
6 Plato: From the Parmenides
For if it were moving, it would either change place or undergo alteration, since these are the only kinds of motion?
Yes.551
7 The same: From the Timaeus
Thus the living creature as a whole moved, but went wherever chance led, without order or reason, possessing all six motions: forward and backward, again right and left, downward and upward, wandering every way through the six directions.552
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