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Book I Chapter 19 · I.19.9.5
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p. 4549 Ἐν ταὐτῷ · 5
Ἔτι οὖν σοι λέγω νηνεμίας τε καὶ γαλήνας καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα, ὅτι αἱ μὲν ἡσυχίαι σήπουσι καὶ ἀπόλλυσι, τὰ δ’ ἕτερα σῴζει· καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις τὸν κολοφῶνα ἀναγκάζω προβιβάζων, τὴν χρυσῆν σειρὰν ὡς οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ τὸν ἥλιον Ὅμηρος λέγει, καὶ δηλοῖ ὅτι ἕως μὲν ἂν ἡ περιφορὰ ᾖ κινουμένη καὶ ὁ ἥλιος, πάντα ἐστὶ καὶ σῴζεται ἐν θεοῖς τε καὶ ἀνθρώποις, εἰ δὲ σταίη τοῦτο ὥσπερ δοθέν, πάντα χρήματ’ ἂν διαφθαρείη καὶ γένοιτ’ ἂν τὸ λεγόμενον [τὰ] ἄνω κάτω πάντα;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 19
p. 4559 Plato: The golden chain
Shall I also tell you of windless weather, calm seas, and the like: how these still conditions cause decay and destruction, while their opposites preserve? And, pressing the argument to its crowning point, shall I insist that by the golden chain Homer means nothing other than the sun?559 He shows that so long as the revolution and the sun continue moving, all things among gods and human beings exist and are preserved; but if this should come to a standstill, as though that were granted, everything would perish, and, as the saying goes, all would be turned upside down.560
Socrates
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