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Book I Chapter 24 · I.24.1c–I.24.1e
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p. 5601c ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Ἀναξαγόρας τὸν περικείμενον αἰθέρα πύρινον μὲν εἶναι κατὰ τὴν οὐσίαν, τῇ δὲ εὐτονίᾳ τῆς περιδινήσεως ἀναρπάσαντα πέτρους ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ⟨καὶ⟩ καταφλέξαντα τούτους ἠστερωκέναι.
Ἀπ᾽ ἀνατολῶν δὲ ἐπὶ δυσμὰς φέρεσθαι πάντας τοὺς ἀστέρας.
1d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 1
Διογένης κισηροειδῆ τὰ ἄστρα, διαπνοίας δὲ αὐτὰ νομίζει τοῦ κόσμου, εἶναι δὲ διάπυρα.
1d ⟨Ἀετίου⟩ · 2
Συμπεριφέρεσθαι δὲ τοῖς φανεροῖς ἄστροις ἀφανεῖς λίθους καὶ παρ᾽ αὐτὸ τοῦτ᾽ ἀνωνύμους, πίπτοντας δὲ πολλάκις ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς σβέννυσθαι, καθάπερ τὸν ἐν Αἰγὸς ποταμοῖς πυρωδῶς κατενεχθέντα ἀστέρα πέτρινον.
1e ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Δημόκριτος πέτρους.
Καὶ πρῶτα μὲν τὰ ἀπλανῆ, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα τοὺς πλανήτας.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 24
p. 5611c ⟨Aëtius⟩: Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras held that the surrounding aether is fiery in substance, and that by the force of its whirling it snatched rocks up from the earth ⟨and⟩ set them ablaze, turning them into stars.
All the stars travel from east to west.710
1d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Diogenes’ porous stars
Diogenes held that the stars are like pumice; he considers them vents through which the world breathes, and says that they are incandescent.711
1d ⟨Aëtius⟩: Unseen stones
Unseen stones revolve together with the visible stars and, for that very reason, have no names. They often fall to earth and are extinguished, like the stony star that fell in a blaze at Aegospotami.712
1e ⟨Aëtius⟩: Democritus
Democritus held that the stars are rocks.
The fixed stars come first, and after them the planets.713
Socrates
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