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Book I Chapter 20 · I.20.1e.2–I.20.1f.2
Ancient Greek
p. 4601e ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 2
Παναίτιος πιθανωτέραν εἶναι νομίζει καὶ μᾶλλον ἀρέσκουσαν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀϊδιότητα τοῦ κόσμου ἢ τὴν τῶν ὅλων εἰς πῦρ μεταβολήν.
1f ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Ἀριστοτέλης τὸ ὑπὸ τὴν σελήνην μέρος τοῦ κόσμου παθητικὸν ἀπεφαίνετο, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὰ περίγεια κηραίνεται.
Ξενοφάνης, Παρμενίδης, Μέλισσος ἀγένητον καὶ ἀΐδιον καὶ ἄφθαρτον τὸν κόσμον.
1f ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
[Καὶ] οἱ φάμενοι δὲ τὴν διακόσμησιν αἰώνιον ὑπάρχειν περιοδευτικοὺς εἶναι φασι χρόνους, καθ’ οὓς κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ ὡσαύτως γίγνεσθαι πάντα καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν διασῴζεσθαι τοῦ κόσμου διάταξίν τε καὶ διακόσμησιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 20
p. 4611e ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Panaetius
Panaetius considers the eternity of the world more plausible, and more acceptable to him, than the transformation of all things into fire.567
1f ⟨Aëtius⟩: The perishable region
Aristotle declared that the portion of the world beneath the moon is subject to being affected; in it, things around the earth also suffer decay.568
Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Melissus held the world to be ungenerated, eternal, and imperishable.
1f ⟨Aëtius⟩: Recurring periods
[And] those who say that the world’s ordering is everlasting also say that there are recurring periods in which everything takes place in the same respects and in the same way, and the same arrangement and ordering of the world is preserved.569
Socrates
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