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Book I Chapter 24 · I.24.3–I.24.5.1
Ancient Greek
p. 5743 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Μητρόδωρος ἅπαντας τοὺς ἀπλανεῖς ἀστέρας ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου προσλάμπεσθαι.
Στράτων καὶ αὐτὸς τὰ ἄστρα ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου φωτίζεσθαι.
Διότιμος Τύριος, ὁ Δημοκρίτειος, τὴν αὐτὴν τούτοις εἰσηνέγκατο γνώμην.
4 ⟨Ἀετίου⟩
Εὔδοξος καὶ Ἄρατος τὰς ἐπισημασίας κατὰ τὰς τῶν ἄστρων ἐπιτολὰς γίνεσθαι. Λέγει γοῦν Ἄρατος ἐν τοῖς Φαινομένοις οὕτως·
Αὐτὸς γὰρ τά γε σήματ᾽ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξεν ἄστρα διακρίνας· ἐσκέψατο δ᾽ εἰς ἐνιαυτὸν ἀστέρας, οἵ κε μάλιστα τετυγμένα σημαίνοιεν.5 ⟨Ἀρείου Διδύμου⟩ · Ποσειδωνίου
Ἄστρον δὲ εἶναί φησιν ὁ Ποσειδώνιος σῶμα θεῖον ἐξ αἰθέρος συνεστηκός, λαμπρὸν καὶ πυρῶδες, οὐδέποτε στάσιν ἔχον, ἀλλ᾽ αἰεὶ φερόμενον ἐγκυκλίως· ἰδίως δὲ τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὴν σελήνην ἄστρα λέγεσθαι· διαφέρειν δὲ ἀστέρα ἄστρου· εἰ μὲν γάρ τίς ἐστιν ἀστήρ, καὶ ἄστρον ὀνομασθήσεται δεόντως, οὐ μὴν ἀνάπαλιν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 24
p. 5753 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Light received from the sun
Metrodorus held that all the fixed stars receive their light from the sun.
Strato too held that the stars are illuminated by the sun.
Diotimus of Tyre, the follower of Democritus, put forward the same opinion as they did.736
4 ⟨Aëtius⟩: Eudoxus and Aratus
Eudoxus and Aratus held that weather signs occur in accordance with the risings of the stars. Thus Aratus says in the Phaenomena:737
For he himself established signs in heaven, setting the stars apart; and for the year he devised stars that would give the surest signs.
5 ⟨Arius Didymus⟩: Posidonius
Posidonius says that a celestial body is a divine body constituted from aether, bright and fiery, never at rest but always moving in a circle. In particular, the sun and moon are called celestial bodies. A star differs from a celestial body: if something is a star, it will also properly be called a celestial body, but not conversely.738
Socrates
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