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Book I Chapter 20 · I.20.6.5–I.20.7.1
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p. 4786 Ἀρισταίου · 5
Τὸ μὲν ἔργον ἁμαρτάνεται [ἐν] τοῖς τεχνίταις, ὅκκα παραλλάξῃ τὸν τᾶς τέχνας λόγον· τὰ δὲ γινόμενα φύσι φθείρεται, πηρὰ καὶ ἄναρθρα γινόμενα, ὅκκα παραλλάξῃ τὸν τᾶς ἁρμονίας λόγον.
7 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · 1
Ποσειδωνίου. Ποσειδώνιος δὲ φθορὰς καὶ γενέσεις τέτταρας εἶναί φησιν ἐκ τῶν ὄντων εἰς τὰ ὄντα γινομένας. Τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τῶν οὐκ ὄντων καὶ τὴν εἰς οὐκ ὄντα, καθάπερ εἴπομεν πρόσθεν, ἀπέγνωσαν ἀνύπαρκτον οὖσαν. Τῶν δ’ εἰς ὄντα γινομένων μεταβολῶν τὴν μὲν εἶναι κατὰ διαίρεσιν, τὴν δὲ κατ’ ἀλλοίωσιν, τὴν δὲ κατὰ σύγχυσιν, τὴν δ’ ἐξ ὅλων, λεγομένην δὲ κατ’ ἀνάλυσιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 20
p. 4796 Aristaeus: Failure and dissolution
“The craftsman’s work fails when it departs from the rational principle of the art; things that come into being naturally perish, becoming impaired and disjointed, when they depart from the rational principle of harmony.”597
7 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Posidonius on change
Posidonius. Posidonius says that there are four kinds of destruction and generation, taking place from existing things into existing things.598 For, as we said earlier, they rejected coming to be from what does not exist and passing into what does not exist, as processes that never occur. Of changes into existing things, one is by division, another by alteration, another by fusion, and another from wholes, called dissolution.599
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