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Book I Chapter 22 · I.22.1d.2–I.22.1d.3
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p. 5381d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Πρῶτον δ᾽ εἶναι φύσει τὸ μέσον, περὶ δὲ τοῦτο δέκα σώματα θεῖα χορεύειν, οὐρανόν, τοὺς εʹ πλανήτας, μεθ᾽ οὓς ἥλιον, ὑφ᾽ ᾧ σελήνην, ὑφ᾽ ᾗ τὴν γῆν, ὑφ᾽ ᾗ τὴν ἀντίχθονα, μεθ᾽ ἃ σύμπαντα τὸ πῦρ, ἑστίας περὶ τὰ κέντρα τάξιν ἐπέχον.
1d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 3
Τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀνωτάτω μέρος τοῦ περιέχοντος, ἐν ᾧ τὴν εἰλικρίνειαν εἶναι τῶν στοιχείων, Ὄλυμπον καλεῖ· τὰ δὲ ὑπὸ τὴν τοῦ Ὀλύμπου φοράν, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς πέντε πλανήτας μεθ᾽ ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης τετάχθαι, κόσμον. Τὸ δ᾽ ὑπὸ τούτοις ὑποσέληνόν τε καὶ περίγειον μέρος, ἐν ᾧ τὰ τῆς φιλομεταβόλου γενέσεως, οὐρανόν. Καὶ περὶ μὲν τὰ τεταγμένα τῶν μετεώρων γίνεσθαι τὴν σοφίαν, περὶ δὲ τῶν γινομένων τὴν ἀταξίαν τὴν ἀρετήν, τελείαν μὲν ἐκείνην, ἀτελῆ δὲ ταύτην.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 22
p. 5391d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Ten bodies in their dance
The center is first by nature, and ten divine bodies dance around it: heaven, the five planets, after them the sun, beneath it the moon, beneath that the earth, and beneath earth the counter-earth. After all these comes the fire, occupying the position of a hearth about the central points.678
1d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Three regions and two excellences
He calls the highest part of the enclosure Olympus, where the elements have their purity; the region beneath Olympus’s revolution, in which the five planets are arranged together with sun and moon, he calls the world. The region beneath these, below the moon and around earth, where the processes of ever-changing generation take place, he calls heaven. Wisdom concerns the ordered things aloft, while virtue concerns the disorder of things coming into being: the former is complete, the latter incomplete.679
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